Somalia
Somali rebels join forces in cyberspace: UN report
Tag Archives: Shabaab
Somalia
Mogadishu residents told to leave Somali capital
Al Qaeda
Somalia food aid bypasses needy, UN study finds
Somalia
Somali pirates’ new land tactics worry UN
Somalia
Somali militants ‘block UN food aid’
Al Qaeda
US aid rules in Somalia are impossible, says UN envoy
Suicide bomber targets Somali state minister for defense
Four Somalis were killed in the assassination attempt against Sheikh Yusuf Mohammad Siad, a former ally of Shabaab and Hizbul Islam, in Mogadishu.
Shabaab calls for jihad against Kenya
Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Somalia said Kenya is in its crosshairs as Kenya is training both Somali and Kenyan troops to battle the terror group.
Yemen
No help for non-Somali asylum seekers in Yemen
Al Qaeda
Somalia: Jihadist groups allied with Al-Qaeda
Shabaab absorbs southern Islamist group, splits Hizbul Islam
The Ras Kamboni Brigade has broken away from Hizbul Islam, merged with Shabaab, and pledged allegiance with al Qaeda.
Somalia
Somali rebels unite, profess loyalty to al Qaeda
Shabaab suicide bomber kills seven at Mogadishu medical clinic
A suicide bomber detonated his vest at a clinic at the Mogadishu airport that is used by African Union troops.
Shabaab looks to the Somali North
The al Qaeda-linked group has initiated a terror campaign in Puntland and has threatened to take over the semi-autonomous region and the breakaway republic of Somaliland.
Somalia
Stop hiding in Kenya, Somali MPs told
Al Qaeda
US feared attack on Obama inauguration by Somali extremists from Canada
Al Qaeda
I shall send hundreds of men to fight alongside our neighbours, vows al-Qaeda ally in Somalia
Somalia
Wretched, jobless, invisible: are Britain™s Somalis the enemy within?
Al Qaeda
Somalia™s chaos spreading far beyond its frontier and coastline
Al Qaeda
Experts: Somali Islamists improving tactics, bombs
Somalia
Battle against piracy can only be won in Somalia itself, not at sea
Al Qaeda
Cleric in Fort Hood probe grew more radical in Yemeni jail
Somalia
Somalis rally against al-Shabab Islamists and bombing
Suicide bomber kills 3 Somali ministers
The ministers of health, education, and higher education, along with two reporters from Shabelle and Al Arabia were among 19 killed in a suicide attack at a graduation ceremony for medical students at a hotel in Mogadishu.
Arrest in Netherlands may yield insight into Shabaab recruiting networks
Yesterday the Star Tribune (published in Minneapolis-St. Paul) reported on a seemingly significant arrest in the Netherlands related to the al Shabaab recruiting networks that have centered on the Twin Cities area. From the Star Tribune: A 43-year-old Somali man from Minneapolis was arrested this week in the Netherlands for allegedly financing the recruitment of […]
Al Qaeda names Fazul Mohammed East African commander
Fazul has replaced Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who was killed during a US special operations raid in southern Somalia in mid-September. Shabaab’s leader praised the appointment.
Somalia
Somali rebels ban musical ringtones on cellphones
Shabaab threatens to attack Burundi and Uganda
Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein (right), during a prior press conference in Mogadishu. One day after a vicious exchange of mortar fire in Mogadishu that killed more than 30 people, Shabaab threatened to carry the fight to the capitals of Burundi and Uganda, two countries that have provided the bulk of the African Union peacekeepers in […]
Somali minister aided Shabaab suicide attack
State Minister for Defense Sheikh Yusuf Mohammad Siad, who is better known as Indha’adde, sold intelligence to Shabaab that allowed the terror group to conduct a suicide attack that killed the deputy AMISOM commander and 20 others.
Shabaab claims American was one of last week’s suicide bombers
A website affiliated with Shabaab celebrated a Somali-American from Seattle as one of the suicide bombers who conducted a complex assault against the African Union peacekeeper base in Mogadishu last week. The suicide bombers easily entered the AMISOM military compound while driving two white vehicles with United Nations markings. “We thought they were real UN […]