Al-Shabaab and Foreign Fighters in Kenya
Omar Hammami addresses al-Shabaab fighters in a farm within Afgoye district near Somalia's capital Mogadishu, May 11, 2011. The Kenyan military has announced that it killed a British subject , by...
View ArticleAnalysis: Kenya raid projects al Shabaab onto global jihadist stage
MOGADISHU/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab's attack on a shopping mall in the heart of the Kenyan capital has thrust it to the forefront of the global jihadist movement...
View ArticleKenya attack follows power struggle in al-Shabaab
The Islamic extremists of al-Shabaab, who claimed responsibility for the Nairobi shopping mall siege, have gone through a deadly power struggle within their ranks in which at least two leaders were...
View ArticleKenya says destroys two al Shabaab camps in Somalia
By Drazen Jorgic and Edith Honan NAIROBI (Reuters) - The Kenyan air force has destroyed two al Shabaab camps in Somalia, it said on Monday, in the first major military response since the Islamist group...
View ArticleKenya attack is product of brutal power struggle within al-Shabaab
The US-born al-Shabaab commander Omar Hammami, who was shot dead this month by Godane's allies. Photograph: Feisal Omar/Reuters The attack on the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi by Islamist...
View ArticleKenya Westgate Mall Attack: What Is Al-Shabaab?
The group claiming responsibility for the deadly attack on Kenya's Westgate mall, al-Shabaab, is a murky, fractured organization with links to al Qaeda and a host of members born and raised in America....
View ArticleAl Shabaab's Twitter Account Down After Hostage Threat
By Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Al Shabaab on Friday said its Christian enemies had closed its Twitter account, which the Somali militant group used to parade hostages, mock rivals and claim...
View ArticleAl-Shabaab men kill US-born militant in Somalia
MOGADISHU: A prominent US-born Islamist militant was killed in Somalia on Thursday after he fell out with senior commanders of the Al-Shabaab rebel group, witnesses said. Residents in Al-Baate village...
View ArticleSomalia's al-Shabaab kill US fighter
An American from Alabama who ascended the ranks of Somalia's al-Shabaab armed group high enough to attract a $5 million US government bounty has been killed in an ambush ordered by the group's leader,...
View ArticleKenya destroys 2 al Shabaab camps in Somalia
NAIROBI - The Kenyan air force has destroyed two al Shabaab camps in Somalia, it said on Monday, in the first major military response since the Islamist group massacred students at a Kenyan university...
View ArticleKenya says destroys 2 al Shabaab camps in Somalia
NAIROBI - The Kenyan air force has destroyed two al Shabaab camps in Somalia, it said on Monday, in the first major military response since the Islamist group massacred students at a Kenyan university...
View ArticleKenya says kills al Shabaab commander and possibly militant Briton
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's army said it killed a regional commander from Somalia's al Shabaab group, and possibly also a Briton who joined the militants, in fighting over the weekend. Eleven Somali...
View ArticleOne Year After Al-Shabaab's Westgate Attack in Kenya
Sunday marked the first anniversary of al-Shabaab's four-day siege of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, where 67 people were killed and 170 injured. One year later, Al-Shabaab, the official al-Qaeda...
View ArticleAl-Shabaab claims responsibility for deadly strike on bus in Kenya
NAIROBI: Somalia's Al-Qaida-linked al-Shabaab on Saturday claimed an attack on a bus near the Kenyan vacation island of Lamu in which seven people were killed. The Kenyan Red Cross said five civilians...
View ArticleAl Shabaab 'Not To Blame For Kenya Attacks'
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta says al Shabaab militants are not to blame for two attacks that killed 64 people, despite the terror group claiming responsibility for the deadly raids. The...
View ArticleAl-Shabaab threatens Kenya
Somalia's al-Qaeda linked al-Shabaab vowed on Thursday to move their war to neighbouring Kenya, in a broadcast by a top commander urging fighters to rise up against Nairobi. Kenyan troops are battling...
View ArticleAl-Shabaab claims responsibility for Kenya bus attack
Somalia's al-Qaida-linked group says it was behind attack that killed seven people near coastal town of Witu ...
View ArticleAl Shabaab's Global Menace
By ROBIN SIMCOX The Nairobi siege is over, but the al Qaeda threat is not. Fifteen years after the first time the group struck the Kenyan capital—in the 1998 bombings at the U.S. embassy that served as...
View ArticleKenya shopping mall attack: British woman and three Americans 'fighting with...
As the Kenyan government declared that its forces were close to achieving success after three days of carnage which has left 62 dead and more than 100 injured, a lethal and grim threat was emerging...
View ArticleKenya attack follows power struggle in al-Shabab
JOHANNESBURG — The Islamic extremists of al-Shabab, who claimed responsibility for the Nairobi shopping mall siege, have gone through a deadly power struggle within their ranks in which at least two...
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