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Attack casts spotlight on radical preachers
The slaying of a British soldier in southeast London cast a spotlight on radical preachers that influenced Michael Adebolajo, the attacker seen in ...
Muslim hard-liners ID suspect in London attack
A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier on the streets of London was described as a convert to ...
Violence in Somalia scares investors, aid workers
A spate of attacks by Islamic insurgents in Somalia's capital is forcing investors, businessmen and aid workers to have second thoughts about ...
Kenya police kill "terror couple"
Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, a police ...
Mystical branch of Islam has resurgence in Somalia
Hundreds of sweating Sufis chant and sway as the lead sheik moves into the middle of a circle of worshippers and bursts into a chant louder than ...
Int'l donors pledge $300 million-plus for Somalia
International donors heeded warnings about the need for increased support for Somalia by pledging more than $300 million Tuesday toward bolstering ...
Correction: Somalia-Famine Deaths story
In a story April 29 about a report estimating the number of Somalis who died in the country's 2011 famine, The Associated Press erroneously reported ...
Kenyan court sentences 2 Iranians to life in jail
A Kenyan court on Monday sentenced two Iranian nationals convicted of plotting attacks against Western targets to life in prison. Ahmad Abolfathi ...
Car bomber kills 7 in Somali capital
Seven people were killed Sunday morning when a suicide bomber attempted to ram a car laden with explosives into a military convoy escorting a ...
'Off the charts': 133k Somalia famine child deaths
A decision by extremist Islamic militants to ban delivery of food aid and a "normalization of crisis" that numbed international donors to unfolding ...
Kenya court: 2 Iranians guilty of terror plot
Two Iranian nationals, whom officials accused of planning to attack Western targets inside Kenya, were found guilty Thursday by a Kenyan court of ...
American jihadi in Somalia tweets on kill attempt
A most-wanted American jihadi in Somalia said Friday that the leader of Islamic extremist rebels in Somali was starting a civil war, just hours after ...
9 killed by gunman in Kenya, near Somali border
A police chief says that a masked gunman believed to be a member of an al-Qaida-linked Somalia militant group stormed a hotel in a Kenyan city near ...
As Islamic radicals retreat, young Somalis elope
Outside a dilapidated two-story building, Abdi Ali says goodbye to his veiled girlfriend Anisa and they take two separate streets to avoid attention.
Somalia leader: Foreigners aided attack on court
Somalia's prime minister said Monday that several experienced foreign fighters took part in the most serious Islamic extremist attack on Mogadishu in ...
16 killed in attack on Somali Supreme Court
A barrage of bullets and two car bomb blasts rattled Mogadishu on Sunday when nine al-Shabab Islamic extremists stormed Somalia's main court complex, ...
Somalia president admits rapes by security forces
After months of denial, Somalia's government has for the first time acknowledged that its security forces were involved in rape cases that drew an ...
Denmark court convicts brothers of terror training
Two Danish brothers of Somali origin have been sentenced to three and a half years in prison each for the older brother's participation in a training ...
Will $5M bring down tweeting, rapping US jihadi?
Will the allure of a $5 million reward be the downfall of a tweeting, rapping American jihadi who once fought alongside the Somali militant group ...
Somali rebels stone to death man for sexual act
A militant official and a Somali resident say al-Shabab fighters have stoned to death a man for carrying out a homosexual sex act. The resident, Yusuf ...
String of attacks in Somali capital slows progress
Isaq Ahmed lifted his head from his hands, his eyes clouded with tears, as he looked at the crowd gathered near the twisted wreckage from a car bomb ...
Car bomb explodes near bus in Mogadishu; 7 dead
An explosives-laden car that apparently was targeting a truck full of Somali government officials instead hit a civilian car and exploded, setting a ...