Al-Shabaab Claims Car Bombings at Hotel in Mogadishu
Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the latest series of car bombings in Mogadishu, which killed at least 29 civilians and...
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Double Truck Bombing in Mogadishu
On October 14th, a double truck bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia killed 300 people and wounded another 300. The first truck...
Al-Shabaab Attacks Civilians in Pizza House
Over the past week, al-Shabaab carried out two successful terrorist attacks in Somalia. The first took place on June 8...
Somali President’s Palace Targeted by Al Shabaab Car Bomb
On August 30th, 2016, a bomb targeted the palace of Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud. The blast outside the SYL...
Al-Shabaab Bombs Armed Guards Near Mogadishu Airport
United Nations and African Union facilities were struck by two suicide bombers on the morning of Tuesday, July 26th in...
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...
Islamic State and al-Shabaab On Collision Course Over Somalia
The Islamic State (IS) claimed its first terrorist attack on Monday using an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) to destroy an...
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 Determined To Advance-US, AU, and AMISON Determined To Fight Back
The Al Qaeda-linked group operating in Somalia, Al Shabaab, has unfortunately had quite an active summer. Less than two weeks...
Al Shabaab Weekend Attacks: Drive-by Shooting, Hotel Bombing
On July 25, Abdullahi Hussein Mohamud Bantu, a member of Somalia’s Parliament, was killed in a drive-by shooting in the...
Al Shabaab Showing Signs of Resurgence in Southern and Central Somalia
Within the past week, the Al Qaeda-linked terrorist organization Al Shabaab has made several advances in the lower Shebelle region...
Al Shabaab Targets UAE for the First Time
On June 24, al Shabaab fighters killed a number of people in a suicide car bomb attack in Mogadishu, Somalia,...
What al Shabaab Hopes for Your Town
After the recent large scale attack in Garissa Kenya that was preceded by an assassination in Uganda, two massacres in...
United Nations Convoy Targeted by Al-Shabaab
A day after the group slaughtered 36 quarry workers in the Kenyan town of Mandera, Al-Shabaab carried out a car...