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Al-Shabaab

The latest news and comment on al-Shabaab

January 2019

  • Amateur footage captures people escaping Nairobi terror attack – video

  • Nicholas Haysom, the UN secretary general’s special envoy for Somalia

    Somalia expels top UN official over 'interference with internal affairs'

December 2018

  • Somali women walk past wreckage of the car bomb in Mogadishu.

    Al-Shabaab car bomb kills at least 16 in Mogadishu

    Police in Somalia say suicide bomber blew themselves up near presidential palace

November 2018

  • The aftermath of an attack carried out by al-Shabaab Mogadishu.

    US airstrikes fail to weaken al-Shabaab's grip on Somalia

    Islamic extremist group is adapting to increasingly lethal air campaign, research shows

October 2018

  • Abdifutah Ahmed Hassan browses the internet at the cyber cafe he manages in Mogadishu, Somalia.

    Life at the bottom of the global league of internet access

    In Somalia, to be caught with a smartphone in the wrong place can mean death
  • File photo of Al Shabaab militants parading new recruits after arriving in Mogadishu<br>Al Shabaab militants parade new recruits after arriving in Mogadishufrom their training camp south of the capital in this October 21, 2010 file photo. The United States has carried out an air strike in Somalia, killing more than 150 fighters with the al Qaeda-linked Islamist group al Shabaab, following U.S. intelligence on preparations for a large-scale militant attack, the Pentagon said on March 7, 2016. REUTERS/Feisal Omar/Files

    Airstrike kills 60 Islamist extremist fighters in Somalia, US military says

    No civilians were injured or killed in Friday’s airstrike, one of the deadliest operations against al-Shabaab

    • Somalia executes man by firing squad for 2017 Mogadishu market bomb

    • We should talk to al-Shabaab now – we owe it to the Mogadishu bomb victims

      Hussein Sheikh-Ali

    • Al-Shabaab says it has killed British ‘spy’ in Somalia

September 2018

  • Somali soldiers aided by US forces broke into the family home of a revered nationalist leader and former president.

    US-assisted raid on Somali ex-leader's home blamed on bad intelligence

    Joint forces looking for Islamic militants broke into the family home of a revered leader and detained three teenagers

August 2018

  • Samantha Lewthwaite, dubbed the ‘White widow’, was reported to be behind the Kenyan shopping mall massacre in 2013 which has left 62 dead and 170 injured

    British army unit will tackle threat from female suicide bombers

    New team will operate in east Africa supporting victims of coercion and sexual violence

July 2018

  • In this photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013, members of the Somali community visit near a park in Minneapolis. It’s been six years since Minnesota first began furnishing young fighters to al-Shabab, the terror group that has claimed responsibility for the deadly mall attack in Kenya. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

    US allows hundreds of Somalis to stay until at least March 2020

  • Security forces guard the scene of the bombing in Mogadishu

    At least nine killed in al-Shabaab car bomb attack in Somalia

June 2018

  • FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2009 file photo, al-Shabab fighters sit on a truck as they patrol in Mogadishu, Somalia. The U.S. military said Friday, May 5, 2017 that a service member has been killed in Somalia during an operation against the extremist group al-Shabab as the United States steps up its fight against the al-Qaida-linked organization. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor, File)

    One US soldier killed and four wounded in Somalia attack

    Military says four wounded Americans now in Kenya after attack for which al-Shabaab extremist group claims responsibility

May 2018

  • A Somali soldier near the wreckage of a car bomb in Mogadishu in April. There are several hundred US troops in Somalia helping the local military in its fight against al-Shabaab.

    US forces accused of complicity in Somalia raid that left five civilians dead

    Locals say unarmed men were banana farmers and were killed trying to flee during operation against al-Shabaab extremists

April 2018

  • Floral tributes and a photograph of Lee Rigby with a message reading 'RIP Lee. Such a tragic loss'

    The Sunday essay
    How Lee Rigby’s murder changed the face of terror

    Raffaello Pantucci
  • Ugandan peacekeepers from Amisom in Somalia, where dozens were killed on Sunday

    Al-Shabaab attack kills dozens of Ugandan soldiers in Somalia

February 2018

  • Al-Shabaab recruits

    Al-Shabaab plundering starving Somali villages of cash and children

    Defectors reveal crippling extortion by Islamist terror group and ‘brainwashing’ of boys, as it suffers apparent crisis of morale

January 2018

  • Massacres in Paris, which lasted six days and resulted in over 1,368 deaths Date: 26th September 1792<br>G3B2PJ Massacres in Paris, which lasted six days and resulted in over 1,368 deaths Date: 26th September 1792

    Cities at war
    Cities and terror: an indivisible and brutal relationship

  • An MQ-1 Predator flies a training mission over the White Sands National Monument in Southern New Mexico

    Somali citizens count cost of surge in US airstrikes under Trump

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