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Airstrike killed or wounded several al-Shabab figures: Somali officials
Somali intelligence officials say several senior officials with the al-Shabab extremist group have been killed or wounded in an airstrike. The officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media say the overnight airstrike hit a training ...
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 ...
Somalia brings first prosecution for female genital mutilation
Somalia's Attorney General Ahmed Ali Dahir announced on Wednesday the country's first prosecution against female genital mutilation (FGM) following the death of a 10-year-old girl, an adviser to the government said. Ifrah Ahmed, who advises Somalia on gender issues, said the attorney general was sending ...
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 ...
U.S. carries out first airstrikes against Islamic State in Somalia
The United States carried out its first airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Somalia and killed "several terrorists," the U.S. military said Friday. The Pentagon's Africa Command said the first strike was carried out at midnight Thursday and another one at 11 a.m. on Friday. "Several ...
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 ...
Lufthansa jetliner hijacked to Somalia in 1977 brought back to Germany
A Lufthansa passenger jet that was hijacked to Somalia 40 years ago at the height of a far-left militant group's campaign against West German authorities has returned home. The dpa news agency reported that the Boeing 737 arrived Saturday in the German city of Friedrichshafen, ...
