updated Tue. February 20, 2024
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Voice of America
March 21, 2018
A U.S. airstrike in southern Somalia this week killed two al-Shabab militants and wounded three others, according to the U.S. Africa Command. AFRICOM said in a statement Wednesday that the attack took place near the town of Mubarak, a small agricultural town southwest of the capital, Mogadishu.
BBC News
March 20, 2018
The high school student told the BBC that he feared the role would make him a target of Islamist militant group al-Shabab. The militant group operates in the region. ... Al-Shabab control the surrounding localities. A few weeks back, an MP and a regional minister were killed in the region by the militants.
Horseed Media
March 20, 2018
Somali security forces executed today a raid against the Al Shabab organization in this capital, following the most recent attacks by the armed group, ... Last November, the Prime Minister of Somalia, Hasan Ali Jaire, promised that he would eliminate that militia and that he would do everything possible toÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 17, 2018
Clashes in central Somalia between Somali army troops and al-Shabab militants have left at least 12 people dead, witnesses say. The clashes Thursday started after armed al-Shabab members tried to impose taxes on residents of villages around the town of Mahas, in the Hiran region. Resident DahirÃâà...
Voice of America
March 6, 2018
Rono spoke to VOA's Somali service this week after al-Shabab militants ambushed an AMISOM supply convoy about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 10 soldiers and destroying most of the 20 trucks. It was the latest of many deadly attacks the militant group has wagedÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 3, 2018
She fled from al-Shabab on foot, walking all the way from Somalia, across the border at Lamu and back to Kenya. She was tortured, abused and turned into a sex slave by the militia which she went to join willingly, at first, to find work as a cook. Radhia was recruited in 2013 by one of her close relatives afterÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 2, 2018
Al-Shabab militants in Somalia have shot and killed nine donkeys they said were transporting goods to a government-controlled area in the Bakool region. A security source told VOA Somali the militants seized the donkey carts early Wednesday near the village of Elboon, 15 kilometers west of Wajid.
Voice of America
March 2, 2018
Five police officers have been killed and three others reportedly injured after suspected al-Shabab militants attacked two security camps in Kenya's northeastern Mandera county, that shares a border with Somalia. The attack comes barely a month after suspected al-Shabab militants killed three people inÃâà...
Voice of America
March 2, 2018
At least five African Union troops were killed in an ambush in Somalia's Middle Shabelle region Friday by al-Shabab militants, officials and security sources told VOA Somali. The militant group also was suspected of carrying out a suicide bombing and related attack that left at least five Somali soldiers deadÃâà...
Voice of America
March 1, 2018
Al-Shabab militants in Somalia have shot and killed nine donkeys they said were transporting goods to a government-controlled area in the Bakool region. A security source told VOA Somali the militants seized the donkey carts early Wednesday near the village of Elboon, 15 kilometers west of Wajid.
Newsweek
February 23, 2018
Two car bombs killed at least 18 people and wounded around two dozen more in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, on Friday before militants assailed a pair of buildings near the presidential palace. Ambulances arrived immediately on the scene to bring the wounded to the hospital. One suicide car hit a hotelÃâà...
Voice of America
February 22, 2018
A U.S. drone strike has killed several al-Shabab militants in southern Somalia, officials tell VOA. Local sources said missiles fired ... VOA Somali on the condition of anonymity. The attack was confirmed by witnesses and local residents, who also asked for anonymity because they feared militant reprisals.
PBS NewsHour
December 31, 1999
They search for bombs planted by fighters from Al-Shabaab, Somalia's powerful Islamist militant group. Allied with al-Qaida, Al-Shabaab gunmen have enjoyed a freedom here few armed groups have had anywhere in the world, ruling over swathes of this country for years, attacking the central government'sÃâà...
Horseed Media
December 31, 1999
At least 13 al-Shabab militants escaped from a rehabilitation center in Garowe, the capital of Puntland State on Sunday night. According to security officials, the escape occurred at around 8 p.m. local time, when the militants managed to scale a wall and slip into the darkness, the sources said. The menÃâà...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
It marked the fourth airstrike in Somalia by the U.S. forces so far this year. Previous strikes against al-Shabab took place January 2 and 18 as well as February 19. Meanwhile, 10 al-Shabab militants escaped from a rehabilitation center in the town of Garowe on Sunday night, security officials have told VOAÃâà...
