Al Shabaab is a radical Islamist militant group that controls most of southern and central Somalia. The group is fighting an insurgency against the UN-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG), ...
Last week, after months of speculation and dubious reports about his fate, Omar Hammami – the American commander and erstwhile media face of al-Shabaab – left the jihadist group. In an interview with ...
Terrorist leader Abdi Hiray was responsible for orchestrating attacks on civilians in Hirshabelle state, claims spy agency.
A hail of U.S. missiles aimed at the leader of Somalia's al Shabaab militants may have left a gaping hole in the group's leadership, potentially the biggest challenge to its unity since it emerged as ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon confirmed on Friday that Ahmed Abdi Godane, a leader of the al Shabaab Islamist group, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Somalia this week, calling it a "major ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia - A senior Al-Shabaab leader has been captured in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, the country's spy agency announced, on what has been termed as a major milestone in the fight ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab confirmed on Saturday that its leader Ahmed Godane had been killed in a U.S. air strike this week and named a new leader, promising ...
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A decade on, Somalia’s federal pact benefits elites and al-Shabaab – but it fails the people
The federal government of Somalia was established in 2013 after years of peace and reconciliation talks, held in the context of a famine in 2011 and the rise of militant Islam in the form of ...
Somali Defense Minister Ahmed Moalim Fiqi announced the killing of two senior commanders in the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Shabaab militant group, in a military operation in Jilib, Lower Juba region, in ...
Somalia has lacked a functioning central government since January 1991, when the political opposition party, the United Somali Congress, ousted Mohamed Siad Barre from power.[3] Attempts to establish ...
Nairobi Westgate Mall Siege: Islamic Militant Fears as White Europeans and Wealthy Kenyans Targeted. That was the headline that appeared in my inbox Saturday morning. I research and write about ...
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Days after US announced al-Shabaab strikes in Somalia, Trump says no to Saudi request to attack Houthis in Africa–Middle East shipping route
The United States has taken military action against al-Shabaab in Somalia while declining a request from Saudi Arabia for ...
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