Original sentence: However, Khatumo State also lost its reality around 2015.In 2010, the Dhulbahante clan declared the independence of the HBM-SSC, and when that failed, in 2012, proclaimed the independence of Khatumo State, claiming all three territories for themselves independent of Somaliland and Puntland, thereby forming a new, third faction in the conflict.Puntland claims Sool, Sanaag and Cayn based on kinship ties with the regions' dominant Darod clans.When the Somaliland War of Independence was concluded and the Somali Civil War broke out, Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 as a successor state to the British protectorate and declared independence from Somalia
Edited sentence: In 2012, the Dhulbahante clan proclaimed the independence of Khatumo State, claiming all three territories for themselves independent of Somaliland and Puntland, thereby forming a new, third faction in the conflict.Puntland claims Sool, Sanaag and Ayn (Khatumo-SSC) based on kinship ties with the regions' dominant Darod clans.When the Somaliland War of Independence was concluded and the Somali Civil War broke out, a successor state of the British protectorate was formed in 1991 under the name Somaliland, declaring independence from Somalia