Al Qaeda's East Africa affiliate, al-Shabab, said through its radio that its fighters carried out the attack. Aug 3, 2024 Somalia drought blamed for some 43,000 deaths, half of them children The war in Ukraine and a fight against domestic terrorists have worsened the nightmare in the east...
MOGADISHU, April 5 (Xinhua) -- African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) said its forces Wednesday thwarted attempts by the Al-Shabaab militants to attack its base in Hiran region in southwest Somalia. The AU mission said the insurgents who have been fighting the Western-backed government retrea...
Al-Shabaab attack Somali education ministry
A local official Abdullahi Hassan Abdi confirmed the Monday evening attack. "Al-Shabaab militants killed civilians including a famous businesswoman in this town and injured five others including a government soldier on Monday evening," the local official said. "The soldiers inflicted casualties on the...
Mogadishu (HOL) - Al Shabaab gunmen launched an attack on a hotel in Mogadishu on Sunday that is popular with government officials. Al Shabaab fighters began the attack with an explosion at the gates of Villa Rosa Hotel, a heavily fortified hotel close ...
The attack on Garissa University College left 148 people dead. The militants rampaged through the dorms, demanding to know who was Christian and who was Muslim and killing many of the Christians on the spot.The Somali-based terror group, which has pledged allegiance to al Qaeda,vowed to ...
And Ankara, which is a close ally of Somalia, condemned Saturday's attack, besides pledging to work closely with the Federal Government of Somalia to restore normalcy in the country which has struggled with terrorism for over 12 years. The Al-Shabaab first announced its presence in 2008 and ...
Al-Shabaab continued to extend the area under its control in 2009, banning behaviours that it deemed un-Islamic andimplementingpunishments including beheading, stoning, and amputation for offenders. In July 2010 al-Shabaabsuicide bombersstaged the group’s first major attack outside Somalia, killing ...
The Islamic state news agency, Amaq, released a video on December the 18th that claims to provide visual evidence of its fight with Al Shabaab on December 16th. This is the first time the Islamic state has openly and publicly announced that it is responsible for an attack on Al Shabaab...
FILE PHOTO: Somali security officers drive past a section of Hotel Hayat, the scene of an al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group militant attack in Mogadishu, Somalia August 20, 2022. REUTERS/Feisal Omar/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. military strike has killed approximate...