Topic: Hizbul Islam
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The leader of Somali rebel group Hizbul Islam said on Monday he backed the decision to join up with al Qaeda-linked insurgents al Shabaab in their bid to topple the Horn of Africa country's besieged government.Hasan Dahir Aweys, who ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab rebels said on Thursday they would increase their attacks against Uganda and Burundi after the Islamist rebels joined forces with rival extremists Hizbul Islam.Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings in the Ugandan ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A moderate Islamist group that signed a power sharing deal with Somalia's government in March this year to help quell a raging insurgency has withdrawn from the administration, days after the prime minister quit.Before joining the government, the Ahlu ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Fighting in central Somalia has killed at least 138 people and displaced 63,000 others in the last two weeks, a rights group said Friday.Hizbul Islam and its rival, al Shabaab -- branded by Washington as an al Qaeda proxy ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Fighting killed at least 18 people on Monday in two towns in central Somalia where rebels battled a pro-government militia and each other, according to witnesses.The Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca militia, which is aligned with President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed's weak ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Rival Islamist rebels battled in southern Somalia's Kismayu port Thursday, killing at least 20 people and the fighting threatened to spread to other parts of the failed Horn of Africa state.Witnesses said al Shabaab gunmen and their one-time allies ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Shabaab rebels declared war on rival Hizbul Islam militants on Wednesday, setting up a showdown between the two main insurgent groups in an important southern port that could spread across the nation.Security analysts warn that the failed ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somalia's new security minister warned foreigners Friday not to visit the Horn of Africa nation without government approval after masked gunmen massacred seven Pakistani preachers at a mosque.The clerics were killed Wednesday in Galkayo, a town on the southern ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Somali Islamist group has handed one of two French hostages over to al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants, and captors have begun negotiating for a ransom, senior officials and rebels said on Thursday.A faction in President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed's ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Somali Islamist group has handed over one of two French hostages to al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants to avoid clashes between the two insurgent bands, rebels and officials said on Thursday.Gunmen from an Islamist faction within President Sheikh ...
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