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...
Somalia
Al Shabaab Leaders Targeted in US Airstrike
On July 16, a US drone strike killed over thirty members of Al Shabaab near the town of Bardhere in...
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 Attacks AMISOM Base in Leego, Somalia
On June 26, a suicide car bomber drove into the main gates of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM)...
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,...
Al Shabaab Targets Political Conference, Reminder of Need for Counter-Messaging
On June 18, the Somalian army foiled a suicide bomb plot in the central town of Adado. The plot was...
Al-Shabaab Attacks Kenyan Military Base
Al-Shabaab militants attacked a northeastern Kenyan military base Sunday morning, killing 2 Kenyan soldiers. 11 Al Shabaab fighters were reportedly...
Al-Shabaab Takes Kenyan Village as Ugandan President Declares They Are Weak
Over 30 foreigners, reported to be members of al-Shabaab, have taken over a village in Mandera County, Kenya on June...
U.S. Secretary of State in East Africa Signals Tacit Acknowledgment of Global Jihadist Threat
U.S. Secretary of State visited both Nairobi Kenya (Monday) and the airport in Mogadishu Somalia (yesterday) just weeks after al...
Kenyan Staffer Arrested for al-Shabaab Plot Calls to Mind Convicted U.S. Brotherhood Operative
Kenyan police are holding longtime parliamentary staffer Ali Abdulmajid on suspicion of helping al-Shabaab, an Islamist terror group based in...
Libyan Boat Capsize Reveals Trafficking and Smuggling
As the Sunday morning sun rose, so did the death toll of people trafficked to Europe across the Mediterranean Sea....
7 Killed in U.N. Somali Bus Bomb as al Shabaab Targets AMISOM Contributors
Somalia’s Al-Qaeda’s affiliate group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for an attack on a bus carrying numerous UNICEF members in Northern Somalia....
Suspected Al-Shabaab Jihadists Arrested in Tanzania with Explosives
Tanzanian authorities said on Wednesday that its police arrested at least nine suspected members of al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamist terror...
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...
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...
White Widow Found?
Former Al-Shabaab commander Zakariye Ismail Hersi, who surrendered to Somali military forces last month, has come out with what he...