Dozens Shabab Militants Killed On Military Operation In Somalia
At least 25 elements of the militant Shabab group have been reportedly killed in a police-military operation being carried out in collaboration with 'international partners'...
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Somalia announces it will soon launch a second phase of its offensive against Al Shabaab
Somali President Hassan Shaykh Mohamud has assured that security forces will soon expand operations against the Al Shabaab terrorist group with the start of a...
5 Soldiers Among 26 Killed After Al-Shabaab Suicide Bomb Attack On Somali Army Base
An attack on a military camp in Hawadley town in the Middle Shabelle region of Somalia has resulted in 26 deaths and many more are...
Al Shabaab kills seven soldiers in attack on military base
Islamist fighters from al Shabaab on Tuesday stormed a military base in a part of central Somalia they were forced from last year, killing at...
Can Somalia finally defeat Al-Shabab extremists
Al-Shabab is a vicious organization that has worked with Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups and is often behind horrid terror attacks in Somalia. Somalia’s government-led...
Africa’s approach to countering terrorism still misses the mark
At the end of October 2022, the Somali capital Mogadishu suffered another suicide bomb attack, which killed 121 people and injured more than 300. According...
Suspected fighters kill four road workers in eastern Kenya
Four workers from Kenya’s highways agency were killed in an ambush by suspected militants on Wednesday near the country’s eastern border with Somalia, police said.
Fresh operation in Somalia kills at least 61 al-Shabaab terrorists
At least 61 al-Shabaab terrorists were killed and dozens others wounded in Somalia after an operation by the country’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA),...
15 Al-Shabaab terrorists killed in Somalia
15 terrorists from the extremist Al-Shabaab movement were killed in a security operation in the Middle Shabelle Governorate, eastern Somalia.
Al-Shabab extremists deny contact with Somalia’s government
The Somalia-based al-Shabab extremist group has denied having contact with the Somali government after the country's deputy defense minister claimed that the extremists had for...
US air strikes in Somalia up 30 percent in 2022
US air strikes in Somalia increased 30 percent in 2022, as the Biden administration increased US involvement in the Horn of Africa country that is...
Somalia’s fight against Al Shabaab
They often go unnamed. Across Somalia, they are called “those boys”, “small, small kids”, “AS”, or even “Arsenal”. Somalis are aware that the group has...