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Al-Shabab takes credit as car bomb kills six outside Somali government office
Six people were killed and another 16 injured when a car bomb exploded outside a local government office in Mogadishu on Monday, Somali police and rescue workers said. "Our ambulance teams have collected the dead bodies of six people," said Abdiqadir Abdirahman, director of the ...
Suspected al-Shabab militants kill five soldiers in Kenya's Lamu county
Five Kenyan soldiers were killed in an attack claimed by the Somali group al-Shabab in Lamu County on Kenya's north coast on Wednesday, a senior official said. The local government official in the county, who asked not to be named, said the attack occurred between ...
Shabab suspected as Mogadishu car bombing kills four outside ministry
At least four people were killed Sunday in a suicide car bomb attack in central Mogadishu, police and witnesses said. "There was a blast at a checkpoint close to the interior ministry. Four people were killed, including two members of the security forces," Abdulahi Mohamed, ...
The final death toll in October's massive truck bombing in Somalia's capital is 512 people, according to the committee tasked with looking into the country's worst-ever attack. The final toll is a dramatic increase from previous estimates of more than 350 killed. The committee's report, ...
U.S. military says it conducted airstrike against Islamic State in Somalia, killing one
The U.S. military said on Monday it had carried out an airstrike against Islamic State militants in northeast Somalia, killing one person. Islamic State has been gathering recruits in the region, although experts say the scale of its force is unclear and it remains a ...
U.S. says airstrikes kill over 100 al-Shabab militants in Somalia after earlier attacks in Libya
Reflecting stepped-up targeting of extremists in Africa, the U.S. military said airstrikes killed more than 100 militants in Somalia on Tuesday and hit Islamic State fighters in Libya days earlier. U.S. Africa Command, which manages U.S. military operations on the continent, said the airstrike in ...
Somalia sacks police and intel chiefs after night-long al-Shabab siege at hotel ends with 23 dead
In the wake of a night-long assault on a Mogadishu hotel in which 23 people were killed, Somalia's government has fired the police and intelligence chiefs Sunday. The Cabinet voted to sack the chiefs in response to a recommendation by Somalia's security minister, Mohamed Abukar ...
MOGADISHU AP Somalia's president on Saturday urged troops to prepare for a "state of war" against the al-Shabab extremist group, which has been blamed for the country's deadliest attack. The toll reached 358, with dozens still said to be missing, a week after the truck bombing ...
More than 300 people died after twin bomb explosions in Mogadishu, an official said Monday, as locals packed hospitals in search of friends and relatives caught up in Somalia's deadliest attack in a decade. The death toll has steadily risen since Saturday, when the blasts ...
At least 17 dead as gunmen clad as troops hold hostages in Mogadishu eatery after car bomb blast
Gunmen posing as military forces were holding an unknown number of hostages inside a popular restaurant in Somalia's capital in an attack that began when a car bomb exploded at the gate, police and a witness said, while the extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility. ...
Somali Islamist insurgents bury man up to his neck then stone him to death for adultery
Somali Islamist insurgents stoned a man to death on Sunday as punishment for alleged adultery, they said, a reminder that the militia is still strong enough to carry out public executions despite losing its grip on most towns and cities. Hundreds of witnesses watched the ...
Somalia's government and its foreign backers on Thursday signed a security pact that they presented as a road map toward building a functional national army capable of taking on the fight against al-Shabab militants. The al-Qaida-linked Islamist militant group has lost much of the territory ...
