Somalia executes three over deadly 2017 hotel attack
A statement issued by the military said the three were shot dead by a firing squad at a police academy in Mogadishu Wednesday. The men...
Al-Shabaab
Heavy fighting between Al-Shabaab terrorists and Amisom troops near the Kenyan border
Al-Shabaab militants on Tuesday attacked Amisom troops in two areas near the Kenyan border, residents and media sources have reported. The heavily armed Al-Shabaab fighters...
Al-Shabaab terrorists execute five men over spying claims in Jubbaland
The Al-Qaeda branch in Somalia, Al-Shabaab militia group executed five Somali men in Hagar area of Lower Jubba region of Somalia on claims of spying....
Mukhtar Robow
Robow was born on 10 October 1969 in Hudur, in the Bakool region southern Somalia. He studied at a local Qur'anic school, and later continued...
Ahmed Abdi Godane
Ahmed Abdi Godane, also known as Mukhtar Abu Zubair, was the Emir (leader) of Al-Shabaab, an Islamist group based in Somalia with ties to Al...
Halima Adan Ali
Between 2017 and early 2018, Halima received large sums of money from around the world, mostly through hawala systems, that she would forward to ISIS...
Suicide car bomb kills at least six people in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu
Islamic extremists exploded a suicide car bomb and killed at least six people near the presidential palace in Somalia's capital on Wednesday, police said. Capt....
Kenya wants from the UN to list al-Shabaab as terrorist group
The appeal was made by Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma during talks with EU High Representative Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, on...
Kidnappers demand $1.5m for Cuban doctors taken in Kenya
Gunmen who kidnapped two Cuban doctors in northeastern Kenya and whisked them to Somalia have demanded $1.5 million (1.35 million euros) for their release, police...
Somalia car bomb near the Presidential Palace kills four people
At least four people were killed and scores of others were injured in a bomb explosion at the Warta-Nabada district headquarters in the Somalia capital,...
British terror suspect jailed in Kenya for possessing explosives
A Kenyan court on Thursday sentenced British terror suspect Jermaine Grant to four years prison for possessing bomb-making materials, charges the accused extremist has long...
Fourthy-year jail term for ten terrorists in northern Mozambique
A court in northern Mozambique has jailed 10 persons known to have carried out deadly attacks on the local population in some districts of the...