| Conflict: | Battle of Bargal |
| Partof: | the War in Somalia (2006–2009) Operation Enduring Freedom - Horn of Africa |
| Date: | May 31 – June 3, 2007 |
| Place: | Bargal, Somalia |
| Result: | United States/Puntland victory |
| Combatant1: | Islamic Courts Union |
| Combatant2: |  United States |
| Strength1: | 12-35 insurgents |
| Strength2: | Land: unknown militia 3 US Military Sea: 1 destroyer |
| Casualties1: | 12 killed |
| Casualties2: | Puntland: 5 wounded United States: None |
The Battle of Bargal occurred in June 2007 around the town of Bargal in the northern province of Bari, in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland.
On May 30, between 12 and 35 heavily armed Islamist fighters arrived in two fishing boats from southern Somalia. They were a group of the Islamic Courts Union personnel heading to travel on further out of the country.[1] After their boats sustained damaged from the rough seas they came ashore in Bargal where they raided a local village and clashed with locals before heading up the hills surrounding Bargal. Three members in a task force created by Tier 1 operators from multiple US Military branches (including Chris Vansant a Delta Force operator) who had been tracking the boats arrived in Bargal and with the help of a local warlord "Bashir" set up a patrol base and eventually confronted the fighters. In the fighting some of the local fighters were injured. On June 1, the Combat Controller in the 3 man US team contacted a United States Navy warship, the USS Chafee, and directed fire to the hills around Bargal where Islamist militants had set up a base. The target of the shelling may have been an al-Qaeda operative who the United States believed was involved in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
According to the Puntland regional government, as many as a dozen fighters including Somali militants as well as British nationals, Americans, Swedish, Pakistanis and Yemenis were killed in these operations, and five government troops were injured.