updated Sat. February 24, 2024
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Observer
November 3, 2017
... Ethiopia launched a massive invasion of Somalia after a grouping of Sharia judiciaries—known as the Islamic Courts Union (ICU)—formed a ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
November 2, 2017
Al-Shabab has waged its insurgency since 2006, when it split from the Islamic Courts Union, which controlled Mogadishu for about six months ...
AllAfrica.com
November 1, 2017
The Jubaland leader has had an Islamist background having been part of the Islamic Courts Union and closely linked to the founders of militant ...
ReliefWeb
October 22, 2017
... the late 1990s, a militant faction of AIAI, led by Hassan Dahir Aweys, joined the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) and formed Al-Shabaab.8 In 2013, ...
The Cipher Brief
October 18, 2017
... known as Islamic Courts Union (ICU) that sought to implement Sharia law throughout Somalia. They rebelled against the Somali government, ...
The Real News Network
October 17, 2017
I well remember the WBush decision in 2006 when he removed the Islamic Courts Union which brought stability- it had 13 sections and only Al ...
Newsweek
October 16, 2017
Arabic for “The Youth,” Al-Shabab is a Somali militant group that was spawned by the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), a coalition of shariah courts ...
The Atlantic
October 16, 2017
After years of instability, Somalia was taken over in June 2006 by a moderate Islamist coalition known as the Islamic Courts Union (ICU).
KTIC
December 31, 1999
Al Shabab, which emerged in 2006 from the now-defunct Islamic Courts Union, launched its own insurgency against major cities in Somalia in ...
Newsweek
September 7, 2017
In July, the Somali militant group, which splintered from the Islamic Courts Union in 2006 and pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda in 2012,ÃÂ ...
Christian Post
September 5, 2017
Al-Shabaab splintered from a now defunct group of Sharia courts, the Islamic Courts Union. It has been fighting to overthrow the TransitionalÃÂ ...
Morning Star Online
August 28, 2017
Al-Shabab is a terrorist splinter from the Islamic Courts Union movement that overthrew the US-backed Transitional Federal Government of warlords in 2006,ÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
August 28, 2017
... in Somalia, among them Islamic Courts Union (ICU) who controlled the capital city and much of the southern coastal parts of the country.
International Business Times UK
August 18, 2017
An offshoot of the Islamic Courts Union – a rival administration to the Transitional Federal Government in Somalia – Shabaab aims to overthrowÃÂ ...
BBC Swahili
August 15, 2017
... waanzilishi wa al Shabab akiwa na viongozi wengine wenye siasa kali, kufuatia kushindwa kwa kundi la Islamic Courts Union mwaka 2006.
TUKO.CO.KE
March 27, 2017
Kenya Defence Force (KDF) soldiers have killed several al-Shabaab militants near the Kenya-Somalia border, TUKO.co.ke can confirm.
ABC News
March 19, 2017
Al-Shabaab, whose name means "the youth," emerged in 2006 from the now-defunct Islamic Courts Union, which once controlled Somalia's capital of Mogadishu.
Sunatimes
March 11, 2017
It has been a decade since our last interview in Mogadishu, when he was the spiritual head of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), which the George W. Bush administration warned was "Africa's Taliban.
Toronto Star
March 10, 2017
It has been a decade since our last interview in Mogadishu, when he was the spiritual head of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), which the George W. Bush administration warned was "Africa's Taliban.
TUKO.CO.KE
March 7, 2017
Al-Shabaab emerged in 2006 from the now-defunct Islamic Courts Union, which once controlled Somalia's capital of Mogadishu.
TUKO.CO.KE
February 9, 2017
Al-Shabaab emerged in 2006 from the now-defunct Islamic Courts Union, which once controlled Somalia's capital of Mogadishu.
Eurasia Review
February 7, 2017
To add to these conflicts, the US Air Force launched attacks against a retreating Islamic Courts Union (ICU) to target the Al-Qaeda militants who were allegedly being harboured by the ICU.
Pulse.com.gh
February 7, 2017
Also in the running is ex-president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a fellow Hawiye and 52-year-old former leader of the Islamic Courts Union which pacified Somalia before being driven out by US-backed Ethiopian troops. The leading Darod candidates are PrimeÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
February 7, 2017
Sharif Sheikh and Madhoobe share a common background and have been linked since the times of the Islamic Courts Union. Puntland President Abdiweli Ali Gaas arrived in Mogadishu on Sunday and sources close to him say he is backing PM OmarÃÂ ...
Walta Information Center (blog)
February 6, 2017
... undertakings' Isaias government ; executing its 'belligerent' policy , there wasn't an ammunition and rocket left to shot; any bombs or left to be thrown in Somalia, by backing up the fundamentalist Islamic courts union and the self - proclaimed Al ...
AllAfrica.com
February 1, 2017
... since the 1977 Zone 5 war . Ethiopia has the highest number of foreign troops in Somalia and its military presence has been in the neighbouring country since 2006 when it came to back the then Transitional Federal Government fight Islamic Courts ...
Reason (blog)
January 30, 2017
Around that time, the U.S. also ramped up its involvement in Somalia, assisting in an invasion by Ethiopian forces to overthrow the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), which had begun to impose its order on Somalia. After this invasion, the youth wing of the ...
Eurasia Review
January 25, 2017
This logic inspired the CIA to finance warlords in Somalia to fight the Islamic Courts Union in 2006. This financing of the APRCT had the effect of conflating Somalia nationalism with terrorism.
CounterCurrents.org
January 25, 2017
August 22, 2008, Al-Shabaab retook Kismayo, [IRIN News] (Islamic Courts Union, had been driven out of Kismayo in January 2007 when Ethiopian forces rolled into Somalia to take control of much of central and southern Somalia.
AllAfrica.com
January 23, 2017
One justification for this US investment has been Ethiopia's frontline role in the fight against terrorism, especially its willingness to commit soldiers against the Islamic Courts Union in early 2000 and mid-2006. Without an active US interest in ...
Sunatimes
January 13, 2017
Also in the running is ex-president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a fellow Hawiye and 52-year-old former leader of the Islamic Courts Union which pacified Somalia before being driven out by US-backed Ethiopian troops. The leading Darod candidates are the ...
Middle East Online
January 11, 2017
Also in the running is ex-president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a fellow Hawiye and 52-year-old former leader of the Islamic Courts Union which pacified Somalia before being driven out by US-backed Ethiopian troops. The leading Darod candidates are the ...
Long War Journal
January 11, 2017
The US military has been launching airstrikes and naval bombardments, as well as special operations raids against Shabaab and its predecessor, the Islamic Courts Union, since 2006. Many of these raids were in direct support of military operations, such ...
Livemint
January 10, 2017
The first document published, but not verified, was an internal memo purporting to show how Somalia's Islamic Courts Union intended to murder members of the transitional government there. In its early years, WikiLeaks published information damaging to ...
AllAfrica.com
January 2, 2017
It is ten years now since neighboring Ethiopia sent its troops across the border end of 2006 to help the weak Transitional government rout out the Islamic Courts Union who had controlled the capital Mogadishu for six months. Locals still refer to that ...
Sputnik International
December 28, 2016
In a letter, the authenticity of which WikiLeaks itself was not certain about, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, the head of the council of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) of Somalia, suggested to employ criminals for the assassination of government officials ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 24, 2016
Ethiopia, which was threatened the most by the rise of militant Islam in Somalia, invaded its neighbor in 2007 under an anti-terrorist aegis, though this later ended up sparking the youth wing of the Islamic Courts Union to break off and form its own ...
AllAfrica.com
December 23, 2016
In 2006, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), which controlled large swathes of the country's south and central regions, including Mogadishu, prohibited women from playing sports, especially basketball, labeling it as a "satanic act" against the principles ...
AllAfrica.com
December 9, 2016
He was part of an Alliance of Warlords that fought against the Islamic Courts Union basically setting him against Islamists.
Shadowproof (blog)
December 9, 2016
Though, as journalist Jeremy Scahill detailed in his book, "Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield," CIA-backed Somali warlords were defeated by the Islamic Courts Union in the mid-2000s, and blowback from U.S. policies in Somalia, as well as abroad,ÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 3, 2016
There was no feasible way that the Mogadishu government was going to reassert control over the rest of the country ever again, and the rise of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) proved how radical non-state actors could actually become stronger than their ...
Devex
December 2, 2016
The group emerged as the radical youth wing of Somalia's now-defunct Islamic Courts Union, which controlled the country in 2006 before being ousted by Ethiopian forces.
Antiwar.com
November 3, 2016
"In December, 2006, WikiLeaks posted its first document: a 'secret decision,' signed by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, a Somali rebel leader for the Islamic Courts Union, that had been culled from traffic passing through the Tor network to China. The ...
Aljazeera.com
October 27, 2016
In 2006, the Islamic Courts Union split into several factions, one of which was Al Shabab. The radical group still controls large parts of the south of the country today.
African Arguments (registration)
October 27, 2016
In 2006, Ethiopia invaded Somalia with full force to oust the Islamic Courts Union and help install the internationally-recognised Transitional Federal Government.
International Business Times UK
October 26, 2016
An offshoot of the Islamic Courts Union - a rival administration to the Transitional Federal Government in Somalia - al-Shabaab aims to overthrow the Somali government and impose its own version of Islam in the country.
Daily Nation
October 15, 2016
... become a haven for cells of international terrorists while providing a fertile ground for the emergence of homegrown terrorist groups, including the Al Ittihad Al Islamiya (AIAI), Islamic Courts Union and the deadlier and al-Qaeda-affiliated al ...
Daily Nation
October 15, 2016
... become a haven for cells of international terrorists while providing a fertile ground for the emergence of homegrown terrorist groups, including the Al Ittihad Al Islamiya (AIAI), Islamic Courts Union and the deadlier and al-Qaeda-affiliated al ...
MercatorNet
October 7, 2016
This led to US funding for warlords out of a 9/11 generated fear of the Somali Islamic Courts Union, which was succeeding in ending conflict and bringing stability to Mogadishu.
Long War Journal
October 1, 2016
The US military has been launching airstrikes and naval bombardments, as well as special operations raids against Shabaab and its predecessor, the Islamic Courts Union, since 2006. Many of these raids were in direct support of military operations, such ...
