Shabaab
Aid agencies deal with terrorists to reach Somalia’s starving
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Al Qaeda
Analysts: Somali war helped turn drought to famine
Somalia
UN wants security guarantees for Somalia aid work
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Al Qaeda Seen Aiming at Targets Outside US
Libya
Niger fears takeover by militants in neighbor Libya
Al Qaeda
U.N. flies aid to Somalia after Islamist rebels lift ban
Kenya
Misery Follows as Somalis Try to Flee Hunger
Al Qaeda in Iraq
UK government: Al Qaeda weakened, but terrorism still greatest threat to Olympics
Did Shabaab’s leader say the terror group is losing ground?
VOA reported that Abu Zubayr told a Somali radio station Shabaab was losing, but a Somali official told LWJ that Zubayr never gave the interview.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
US official: CIA aiding interrogations of terror suspects in Somalia
Ugandan drones: this is how rumors get started
The Wall Street Journal claims that a Ugandan drone was used in a strike that injured two Shabaab commanders. Its reporting on the matter is erroneous.
United States
Muslim activist in Minnesota struggles as one-man counter against lure of terrorism
Al Qaeda
MI5 and police reduce UK terror threat from ‘severe’ to ‘substantial’
Senior Shabaab commander rumored to have been killed in recent Predator strike
Ibrahim al Afghani fought in Afghanistan, traveled to Pakistan, is linked to top al Qaeda and Shabaab leaders, and is mentioned in the GITMO documents. The report of Afghani’s death is unconfirmed.
Somalia
UN refugee agency warns of crisis ‘of unimaginable proportions’ in Somalia drought
Alleged Shabaab operative to stand trial in New York
A Somali man named Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame was transferred to New York where he will stand trial for allegedly providing material support to both Shabaab and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The unsealed indictment in his case follows a series of reports connecting Shabaab to AQAP.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Somali Tied to Militants Held on US Ship for Months
Shabaab
Shabaab arrested 13 young men south of Mogadishu for watching pornographic videos on cell phones. Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama’a accused Shabaab of provoking intra-clan fighting in central Somalia.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
US expands its drone war into Somalia
Al Qaeda
US drone targets two leaders of Somali group allied with al-Qaeda, official says
US helicopters strike Shabaab camps in Somalia: report
Two Shabaab fighters are said to have been killed during airstrikes that targeted camps that hosted “foreign fighters.”
Somalia’s Shabaab vows allegiance to new al Qaeda emir Zawahiri
Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage “announces the renewal of its allegiance to the Emir of Qaedat al-Jihad,” according to a statement released on an al Qaeda-linked forum.
Al Qaeda
British targets found near body of al-Qaida leader
Al Qaeda
Young Somali soldier killed Qaida operative
Al Qaeda
Opportunity in Somalia after killing of Qaeda militant
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Killing of embassy bombings mastermind deprives al Qaeda of key figure
Al Qaeda
Somalis, Kenyans hail al-Qaida mastermind’s death
Al Qaeda
‘US Africa embassy bomber Fazul Abdullah Mohammed dead’
Al Qaeda
Suspect behind US Embassy bombings is killed
Pictures of al Qaeda leader Fazul Mohammed’s corpse, SUV, and weapon
On June 8, Radio Mogadishu claimed the man pictured was “Abdurrahman Canadian,” but a Somali official told The Long War Journal that the photograph is of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed.