Al-Shabaab Bombs Second Mogadishu Hotel During Ramadan
On Saturday, June 25th, al-Shabab terrorists stormed the Mogadishu-based Nasa Hablod hotel after a suicide bomber detonated a vehicular IED...
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Mogadishu Hotel Besieged by al-Shabaab
Islamic terrorist group, al-Shabaab, attacked a Mogadishu hotel on Wednesday, June 1st. The attack consisted of a car bomb, quickly...
Ugandan Court Find Seven Guilty in 2010 Twin Bombings in Kampala
On May 26, 2016, Issa Ahmed Luyima along with six accomplices were all found guilty of carrying out the twin...
Kenyan Police Bust Jihadist Plotting Biological Attack
On Tuesday, May 3, 2016, Kenya's General of Police Joseph Boinnet announced that they had cell of jihadist medics linked...
Jahba East Africa Jihadists Encroaching Upon al-Shabaab
On Thursday, April 7, 2016, Jahba East Africa officially pledged an allegiance to Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,...
AMISOM and U.S. Forces Kill Several High-Level Commanders in Al Shabaab
On Tuesday, April 5, 2016, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) reported it had killed several top commanders of...
French Navy Seizes Second Large Cache of Weapons off the Coast of Somalia This Month
On March 20, 2016, the French navy seized a ship in the north of the Indian Ocean carrying several hundred...
U.S. Drone strike May Suggest New Strategy to Combat Terrorism
On Tuesday, March 22, 2016, a U.S. airstrike targeting an Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) training camp reportedly...
AU and U.S. Forces Inflict Heavy Losses on Al Shabaab
A U.S. drone strike targeting a terrorist training camp killed 150 members of the Somali terrorist organization Al-Shabaab. The Pentagon...
Ugandan Elections Raise Questions Over Country’s Hopes for a True Democracy
On February 20, 2016, it was officially announced that Yowser Museveni had won his fifth term for president of Uganda....
AQAP Continues Their Push Through Weak Opposition in Yemen
Another town in Southern Yemen has fallen under control of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) over the weekend....
Death of Al Shabaab Intel Chief Will Mean Nothing If AU Forces Remain Complacent
Kenyan Defense Forces (KDF) reported their airstrike targeting Al Shabaab’s Nadaris camp killed Mahad Mohammed Karatey, the head of Al...
Recent Explosion Raises Questions on Al Shabaab Targeting Airlines
On Tuesday, February 2, 2016 a Daallo Airlines commercial plane traveling from Mogadishu to Djibouti was forced to land just...
Hotel Attack Shows Defections Having Little Effect on Al Shabaab
This past Thursday, January 21, 2016, the Beach View Hotel in Mogadishu was attacked by al Shabaab, an al Qaeda...
Al Shabaab Continues Assault on AU Forces
Early Friday morning, January 15, 2015, the New York Times reported that Al Shabaab, an Al Qaeda affiliated group, forces...
Kenyan military accused of corruption and side business deals with al-Shabaab
A report published by Kenyan advocacy group Journalists for Justice alleges that corrupt elements in the Kenyan military forces deployed...