Tag Archives: AL SHABAB
US air strike destroys vehicle bomb outside Mogadishu
:: US forces in Somalia conducted an air strike Tuesday against a bomb-laden vehicle outside Mogadishu that was deemed an “imminent threat” to the capital, officials said. The strike occurred about 65 kilometers southwest of Mogadishu and comes after as
US drone strike in Somalia kills ‘several’ al-Shabab militants
:: The United States military said on Saturday it has carried out a new drone strike against the al-Shabab extremist group in Somalia, killing “several” militants. A statement by the US Africa Command said the strike was carried out Friday
Funerals begin as Somalia truck bombing toll reaches over 300
:: More than 300 people are dead after the truck bombing in Somalia’s capital and scores of others remain missing, authorities said Monday, as the fragile Horn of Africa nation reeled from one of the world’s worst attacks in years.
US military: Drone strike kills Al-Shabab fighter in Somalia
:: The US military said Monday it carried out a drone strike in Somalia that killed a member of the Al-Shabab extremist group, while a Somali intelligence official said an Al-Shabab leader was targeted but it was not clear whether
Blast in Somalia kills 20 in Mogadishu marketplace
A car bomb blast at a marketplace Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has killed at least 20 people and injured 50 others, said a local Somali official. The blast by a car bomb parked near a restaurant went off at a busy
Kenya police kill 4 suspected extremists at Somali border
Police officers have killed four suspected extremists in Kenya’s volatile Mandera County, a border region hard-hit by recent attacks by the Somali extremist group Al-Shabab. Police killed the men at the Somali border while ambushing a group of about 20
Somali minister among 15 killed in extremist attack on hotel
A Somali Cabinet minister is among the 15 killed in an Islamic extremist attack on a hotel in the capital, police say. Four attackers also died in the assault which was claimed by al-Shabab, Somalia’s militant rebels who are allied
Al-Shabab militants attack Somali army base, say dozens dead
Al-Shabab and government forces battled for control of a remote army base in Somalia on Friday, after fighters from the Islamist militant group said they attacked the compound, killing dozens of soldiers. The group, which is aligned with Al-Qaeda, said
Somalia’s al-Shabab militants ‘execute informers’
Somalia’s al-Shabab militants have executed four people accused of spying for the United States, Ethiopia and the country’s internationally-backed government, officials and witnesses said. The executions by firing squad took place at a square in the town of Bardhere, an
At least 7 killed in al-Shabaab attack at Somali military base
Somalian al-Shabaab militants attacked a military base in the outskirts of the town of Baidoa on Friday morning, killing at least seven soldiers, a Somali military official said. The attack came two days after the United States said it had
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