Tag: al-Shabab
Nineteen people still missing after deadly militant attack in Kenya: Red...
NAIROBI: Nineteen people remain unaccounted for two days after Somali militants attacked a hotel complex in Nairobi and killed at least 21 people, the...
Bomb kills up to five during football match in Somalia
MOGADISHU: A bomb killed up to five spectators at a football match in southern Somalia, police and a lawmaker said on Friday, the first...
Al Shabaab attacks an African Union base in Somalia
MOGADISHU: Islamist insurgents battled for hours on Sunday with African Union troops after exploding two car bombs outside one of their bases, Somali police,...
Three dead in Somalia car bomb attack near parliament
MOGADISHU: A suicide car bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint near Somalia’s parliament and interior ministry in the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, and...
Deadly attacks rock Somalia capital
Mogadishu: Security forces in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, have ended a 15-hour siege of a hotel stormed by armed militants.
The gunmen entered the building...
US drone targets al-Shabab after Somalia’s ‘deadliest attack’
WASHINGTON: The US military said on Friday it carried out a drone strike this week against al-Shabab in Somalia, shortly after the extremist group was...
Al-Shabab: US military to pursue wider involvement in Somalia
With frequent suicide bombings and assaults on Somalia's hotels and military targets, the armed group al-Shabab continues to threaten stability in the war-ravaged country.
The...
