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Al Shabab’s strength and wealth pose threat beyond Somalia’s borders

Kenya started the year with deadly terrorist attacks — again. Al-Shabab, the Islamist insurgent group based in Somalia, successfully attacked Kenya’s Manda Bay military base in early January. The attack killed three American military personnel who were based there. It was less than a year after al-Shabab’s attack on the...

Somali, U.S. forces kill 1 al-Shabab militant

MOGADISHU-- Somali and U.S. forces killed one al-Shabab militant in an airstrike on the al-Shabab militants' stronghold in the southern region on Sunday, said the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). (more…)

8 soldiers killed in al-Shabaab attack in Somalia

At least 18 people including eight Somali government soldiers and 10 al-Shabaab militants were killed, and more than 13 others wounded when fighters from al-Shabaab attacked Somali National Army and African Union peacekeeping mission troops bases in the middle Shabelle region on Sunday. (more…)