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Al-Shabab
July 04, 2020
Explosions rock 2 Somalia cities as 4 killed in Baidoa
Explosions rocked two of Somalia's largest cities on Saturday as officials said a suicide car bomber detonated near the port ...
June 30, 2020
Mortar shells hit after Somalia celebrates reopened stadium
At least three mortar blasts sent sports fans in Somalia ducking for cover Tuesday evening, hours after the Mogadishu Stadium ...
June 29, 2020
Somalia to delay elections by 13 months, says official
Somalia’s election body says it intends to delay the parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for November by 13 ...
June 23, 2020
Suicide bomber kills 2 at Turkish military base in Somalia
A suicide bomber detonated inside a Turkish military training base in Somalia's capital and killed two people, police said ...
June 12, 2020
Extremist group al-Shabab sets up COVID-19 center in Somalia
The al-Qaida-linked extremist group in Somalia has unveiled a COVID-19 isolation and care facility, a sign that the group is ...
May 30, 2020
Kenya: Police kill 2 children, fetus trying to catch suspect
Two children and and an unborn child were killed in a Kenyan police operation aimed at detaining a family member, a human ...
May 17, 2020
Suicide bomber kills governor in Somalia's Puntland region
A Somali police officer says a suicide bomber driving explosives-laden motorized cycle-taxi killed a regional governor in ...
May 13, 2020
Bigotry mars return of Italy hostage who converted to Islam
A right-wing lawmaker in Italy was reprimanded Wednesday after he called a young Italian woman who converted to Islam while ...
May 10, 2020
Italian woman returns home after 18-month African kidnapping
Wearing a surgical mask, disposable gloves and booties to guard against COVID-19, a young Italian woman returned to her ...
May 05, 2020
Kenya questions deadly plane crash in Somalia that killed 6
Somalia's president has promised his Kenyan counterpart a “thorough investigation” into the deadly crash of a Kenyan plane ...
April 27, 2020
US review: Airstrike in Somalia killed, injured civilians
An American military airstrike in Somalia more than a year ago killed two civilians and injured three others, U.S.
April 02, 2020
Extremists see global chaos from virus as an opportunity
Both the Islamic State group and al-Qaida see the coronavirus as a threat, but some of their fighters also see the upheaval ...
March 29, 2020
In Somalia, coronavirus goes from fairy tale to nightmare
At first, the coronavirus was just a fairy tale, a rumor along the dusty lanes of the displaced persons’ camp that Habiba Ali ...
February 06, 2020
Trump administration to open free-trade talks with Kenya
The Trump administration announced Thursday that it intends to open free-trade talks with Kenya in pursuit of what would be ...
January 30, 2020
US military chief in Africa argues for vital US presence
The head of U.S. military forces in Africa argued Thursday against troop cuts on the vast and booming continent, saying ...
January 23, 2020
AP Explains: Why US troop cuts in Africa would cause alarm
Even as destroyed U.S. military aircraft smoldered from an al-Shabab attack that killed three Americans this month in Kenya, ...
January 18, 2020
At least 2 killed, 20 wounded in bombing near Somali capital
At least two people were killed and more than 20 others wounded when a suicide car bomber targeted a construction site along ...
January 13, 2020
Al-Shabab extremists kill 3 teachers in Kenya, abduct 1
Al-Shabab extremists killed three people in an assault early Monday in eastern Kenya, its fifth attack in thirteen days, ...
January 08, 2020
Car bomb kills 3, wounds 6 at checkpoint in Somali capital
A car bomb exploded at a checkpoint in Somalia's capital Wednesday morning, killing three people and wounding six others, a ...