Kenya Strikes Back
Late Sunday night, April 5, 2015 through Monday morning, Kenya began launching attacks against Al Shabaab camps in Somalia. Kenya’s...
Al Shabaab
In Al Shabaab Old Relationships May Prevent New Allegiance, For A Time
On April 1, 2015, Zakariya Hersi, a former al-Shabaab intelligence official claimed that al-Shabaab’s relationship with al-Qaeda is disintegrating. In...
al Shabaab lays siege to Christian University in Kenya
A mass of al Shabaab gunmen raided Garissa University College campus around 5:30 AM local time Thursday morning. The two...
Al-Shabaab’s Video Projects Power, Continuity
On March 30th 2015, al-Shabaab’s main media branch, al-Kataib released a video titled “Remembrance 2” showing several al-Shabaab fighters executing...
al Shabaab Assassinates Ugandan Prosecutor of 2010 World Cup Bombing Case
Ugandan prosecutor Joan Kagezi was in her car with her children when men tailing her by motorcycle drove by and...
Hotel Attack Shows Al Shabaab Maintains Terror Capability Despite Setbacks
Al-Shabaab blasted their way into the compound of Maku-Mukarramah Hotel in Mogadishu last Friday afternoon. Four gunmen stormed the very...
Unlike Nigeria, U.S. gives anti-terror support to Uganda
As of late last week Uganda has improved security in its capital of Kampala due to fears of an impending...
Kenya Seeks Negotiations With Al-Shabaab; Terrorist Group Considers Offer
In the wake of a March 13 attack targeting the convoy of a Kenyan state governor, for which Somalia-based Islamic...
Propaganda: Can you tell the difference between al Shabaab and al Jazeera?
Imagine a university undergraduate student asking a professor how to know which sources to trust for his or her research...
al Shabaab Calls for Attacks in the West
One day after a double-bombing in Mogadishu, al-Shabaab released a video calling for attacks on malls in the West including...
Pentagon Confirms Kill of al Shabaab Chief
On February 10th, the Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby confirmed that a drone strike on January 31st successfully killed...
White Widow Found?
Former Al-Shabaab commander Zakariye Ismail Hersi, who surrendered to Somali military forces last month, has come out with what he...
Former Al-Shabaab Intelligence Chief Renounces Terrorism
In his first public statement since surrendering to Somali authorities in December, former senior Al-Shabaab leader Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi...
Al-Shabaab Targets Turkish Officials in Somalia
Al-Shabaab, the Somali-based Islamic extremist group, targeted a Turkish delegation meeting at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia on Thursday. At...
Kenyan Pastors Ask for Firearms in Midst of Al-Shabaab War
Last week in Mombasa, Kenya, gunmen shot and killed George Karidhimba Muriki, assistant pastor of the Maximum Revival Ministries Church,...
Charlie Hebdo Began a Month Ago for Kenya
In terms of body counts, Africans suffer the most in the jihad against the West. In this third day of...