Nairobi shows jihadist terror still poses a threat
We cannot defend every shopping mall in the world against terrorist attack. We are just going to have to live with the threat, and for some considerable time to come.
U.S. Navy SEALs raid the Somali home of a leader in the terrorist group al-Shabab but fail to catch him.
Warlord behind Kenya attack has global ambitions
The alleged Somali mastermind of the assault on a posh mall that killed scores and jolted Kenya is a man of contradictions. Ahmed Godane is bookish, eloquent in both Arabic and Somali, recites poetry and is known to quote from obscure academic journals, analysts say. ...
Al-Shabab nimbler under new leader
The attack that killed 69 people in a Kenyan shopping mall over the weekend was the first regional operation undertaken by the new leadership of Somalia's al-Shabab militants following a bloody power struggle. After months of pressure from African troops against the al-Qaida-linked group inside ...
Kenya's foreign minister says "two or three Americans" and "one Brit" were among the al-Qaida-linked militants who took part in the deadly terrorist attack on an upscale Nairobi shopping mall.
