Shabaab abandons western city as Ethiopian troops advance
Shabaab was in control of Baidoa for three years before abandoning the provincial capital today without a fight.
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Al-Shabaab militia abducting teenage girls to marry fighters
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Jihad stops Arab Spring in Somalia says British PM
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Somalia conflict: Why should the world help?
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Somalia’s al-Shabab ‘forced whole classes to fight’
Kenya
No hurry to crush al Shabaab on Kenya’s frontline
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Shabaab suicide bombers to launch series of attacks in time with David Cameron conference
Somalia
Somalia leaders reach agreement on re-shaping politics
Al Qaeda
Fears of terror strike in heart of Somali capital after car bomb explodes
Shabaab celebrates merger with al Qaeda
Thousands attended rallies held by senior Shabaab leaders in cities outside of Mogadishu.
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Somalia wants arms embargo lifted to fend off al Qaeda
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African Union Appeal for Mobilization to Defeat Al Qaeda in Somalia
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Somalia’s al-Shabab join al-Qaeda
‘We in MYC are now part of al Qaeda East Africa’
The Muslim Youth Center, Shabaab’s affiliate in Kenya, said that the groups would fight “under the banner of AQEA (al Qaeda East Africa).” AQEA has long reported to al Qaeda’s most senior leadership.
Shabaab formally joins al Qaeda
The announcement formalizes the longstanding close working relationship between the two terror groups.
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Shabaab and al Qaeda formally said the two groups have merged. Ayman al Zawahiri announced “the joining of the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement in Somalia to Qaedat al-Jihad, to support the jihadi unity against the Zio-Crusader campaign and their assistants amongst the treacherous agent rulers.”
Suicide bomber kills 9 in Mogadishu
The suicide attack took place at a hotel that is frequented by members of the Somali parliament.
More Minneapolis ties to Shabaab
Ahmed Hussein Mahamud, a Somali American, pled guilty to conspiring to provide money and recruiting personnel for Shabaab.
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UN Says Famine in Somalia Is Over, but Risks Remain
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Red Cross banned from areas of Somalia under al-Shabaab control
Somalia
Fear in Somali journalist community after killing
Somalia
Navy wants commando ‘mothership’ in Middle East
Navy SEALs free 2 Western hostages in Somalia
The US and Danish hostages were freed during a nighttime raid by SEAL Team Six.
Shabaab suicide bomber targets Ethiopian troops
Shabaab claimed a member of its “Martyrdom Brigades” killed 33 Ethiopian soldiers and officers in an attack in western Somalia.
British al Qaeda/Shaabab leader may have been killed after calling home
Relatives of Bilal al Berjawi think he was traced after calling his wife, who had just given birth.
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Threat Level Rising: How African Terrorist Groups Inspired by al-Qaeda Are Gaining Strength
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British ‘al-Qaida member’ killed in US drone attack in Somalia
British Shabaab operative killed in airstrike in Somalia
Bilal al Berjawi, a British citizen of Lebanese origins, “was from the early people who came to jihad in Somalia.” Shabaab said he was killed today in a US drone strike. He was second-in-command to slain al Qaeda leader Fazul Mohammed.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
AQAP carries on after al-Awlaki
American fighter pictured with Shabaab commander identified
The Long War Journal has confirmed that Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax is the Shabaab fighter who has been seen with Omar Hammami. Faarax, who is from Minneapolis, was indicted by the US for terrorist activities in in October 2009.