A soldier of the Somali National Army (SNA) takes up a firing position 20 January during an advance into insurgent Al Shabaab territory. The operation saw SNA Forces, supported by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) push 3.5km further north from their previous forward defnsive line along the industrial road to take the strategically important area of and around Mogadishu Univeristy, the very furthest northern point of the Somali capital and where the Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab planned and carried out attacks against the African Union mission, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and targets within the Somali capital.. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.