Topic: Al-Shabaab
MOGADISHU/NAIROBI (Reuters) - A suicide bomber struck the Somali capital on Tuesday, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks in Mogadishu, and dozens of Islamist rebels and Somali government troops have been killed in fighting in the south.The car bomb exploded ...
MOGADISHU/NAIROBI (Reuters) - A suicide bomber struck the Somali capital on Tuesday, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks in Mogadishu, and dozens of Islamist rebels and Somali government troops have been killed in fighting in the south.The car bomb exploded ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopia is being sucked back into Somalia to open another front against Islamist rebels battling Kenyan forces but even a military victory is unlikely to end two decades of anarchy unless the country's feuding politicians and clans want peace.An ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Unidentified fighter jets bombed three Islamist militant bases in Somalia Wednesday, residents and soldiers said, as neighboring Kenya continued its assault on the rebels.Kenyan troops entered Somalia six weeks ago vowing to wipe out the al Shabaab group, who ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Al Shabaab militants on Sunday welcomed a reported incursion by hundreds of troops from neighbouring Ethiopia as a sign that Kenya's offensive against the Islamist rebels was failing.The Kenyan military said warplanes backed by salvoes from warships off Somalia's ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Al Shabaab militants on Sunday welcomed a reported incursion by hundreds of troops from neighboring Ethiopia as a sign that Kenya's offensive against the Islamist rebels was failing.Underlining that it was pursuing the offensive, the Kenyan military said warplanes ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A large explosion was heard near a Somali rebel stronghold about 30 km (19 miles) from the capital Mogadishu Sunday, residents and a senior rebel official said.They said the blast hit near Afgoye, one of 10 Somali towns the ...
GARISSA, Kenya (Reuters) - Four Kenyan soldiers were wounded in a firefight with Somalia's al Shabaab rebels overnight, the latest in a series of recent clashes, five weeks after Nairobi first sent soldiers into its neighbor.Kenya, the region's biggest economy, sent troops ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali Islamist militants mounted weapons on roofs, dug trenches and armed students in the port of Kismayu, warning the "Kenyan invasion" would lead to "cataclysmic consequences."Kenya's army has warned Somali civilians to stay away from al Shabaab militant bases ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Shabaab rebels called on Thursday for supporters in Kenya to carry out a major strike in retaliation for a 12-day military incursion by east Africa's powerhouse.Kenya has sent soldiers and heavy weapons into southern Somalia to crush ...
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