- In the late 1980s two-thirds of Somalia was allocated to the American oil giants Conoco, Amoco, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Phillips and Shell.
- In 1991 The United States government organized a rebellion coup that successfully overthrew the government of Somalia, President Mohamed Siad Barre and the country plunged into chaos
- In 1992 President George H.W. Bush send more than 40,000 U.S. troops, in an intervention called “Operation Restore Hope” along with 20,000 soldiers from The United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Spain, Australia, two US aircraft carriers, three US submarines, over four hundred US army aircraft, hundreds of thousands of US tanks, warplanes, fighter jets and approximately 1,000 aviation personnel to Somalia under the cover of humanitarian intervention
Officially, the Administration and the State Department insist that the U.S. military mission in Somalia is strictly humanitarian. Oil industry spokesmen dismissed as “absurd” and “nonsense” allegations by aid experts and veteran analysts that President George H.W. Bush, a former Texas oilman, was moved to act in Somalia by the U.S. corporate oil stake.
U.S. officials estimated casualties of 10,000 to 20,000 Somalis—two-thirds of them women and children
- On October 7, 1993, President Bill Clinton announced the decision to withdraw almost all the U.S. troops from Somalia by March 31,1994
- On July 20, 2006 The United States back to Somalia, Ethiopia waged a proxy war with the Islamic Courts Union on behalf of the United States and further destabilized the country, casualties more than 16,000 civilians and millions more have been made refugees or internally displaced persons
- In December 2020, President Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal of 700 U.S. troops stationed in Somalia
2022, According to the New York Times, The Pentagon is now developing a proposal to send U.S. troops back to Somalia to fight al-Shabaab.
