Tag: Shebab
Somali Shebab university massacre gunmen were Kenyans
All four gunmen from Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Shebab who carried out the Kenyan university massacre earlier this month were Kenyans…
Kenya lists money transfer companies with terrorist links
Kenya’s police chief issued Wednesday a list of 85 people and companies, including at least 13 key money transfer companies,…
Shock, defiance in Kenya after Shebab massacre 148 at university
The bodies of the 148 students and security officers massacred by Somalia’s Shebab Islamists in a Kenyan university were flown…
US citizens warned after Shebab mall threat
United States homeland security chief Jeh Johnson warned shoppers in one of America’s biggest malls to be on their guard…
Gunmen shoot dead Somali lawmaker
Gunmen shot dead a lawmaker in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday, a fellow MP said, the latest in a…
Somalia’s Shebab militants execute CIA, US informers
Somalia’s Shebab militants have executed four people accused of spying for the United States, Ethiopia and the country’s internationally-backed government,…
Senior Shebab official surrenders in Somalia
A top leader of Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab rebels, intelligence chief Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi, has surrendered to government and African…
US ‘strongly condemns’ Shebab attack on Somalia AU base
The United States “strongly condemns” a Shebab attack that killed three soldiers and a civilian at African Union headquarters in…
Somali Islamists execute 28 non-Muslims on Kenya bus
Somalia’s Shebab Islamists on Saturday seized a bus in Kenya, executing 28 non-Muslim passengers in what they said was revenge…
Gunmen execute 28 on Kenya bus near Somalia border
Gunmen seized a bus in northeastern Kenya near the Somali border early Saturday and executed 28 non-Muslim passengers, police said,…
US-Somali shot dead in Mogadishu
A US-Somali engineer who had come back to his birth nation to help rebuild the war-torn country has become the…
Shebab stones woman to death for polyandry
A Somali woman has been stoned to death in an Islamist Shebab-controlled part of the country for secretly marrying several…
Germany arrests three Shebab suspects returning from Kenya
Three German men were arrested at the weekend when they flew home from Kenya, accused of having joined and fought…
Somalia put on high alert after Shebab leader confirmed dead
Somalia’s government warned Saturday that the country’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels were planning a wave of retaliatory attacks after it was…
Somali president thanks US for killing Shebab leader
Somalia’s president on Friday thanked the United States for killing the leader of the country’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants in an…
Suspected Shebab militants behead Kenyan driver
A group of suspected Shebab Islamist militants have beheaded a Kenyan driver after kidnapping a group of traders on Kenyan…
Somali Shebab say 18 dead in attack on government troops
Somalia’s hardline Islamists reported heavy fighting Saturday in battles against government and African Union troops in the central Hiran region.…
Somali Islamists shoot dead fifth lawmaker this year
Somalia’s Shebab insurgents said they had assassinated a lawmaker in Mogadishu as he left prayers at a mosque on Friday,…
African Union troops kill Shebab commanders
African Union troops in Somalia said Friday they had killed two “senior” commanders of the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents, in the…
American pleads guilty in Al-Qaeda sting operation
A naturalized US citizen from India pleaded guilty Friday to providing material support to Al-Qaeda, its Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front…
Gunmen attack Kenya’s coastal Lamu region
Unidentified gunmen raided a village near Kenya’s restive coastal town of Lamu early Friday, Kenyan officials said, the latest in…
Militants blast Somalia presidential palace
Islamist Shebab rebels carried out a major bomb and armed attack on Somalia’s presidential palace late Tuesday, penetrating the heavily…
At least 18 killed in new attacks in Kenya
At least 18 people have been killed in new attacks in Kenya’s Lamu coastal region, the same area where some…
Several killed as suicide car bomb explodes near Somali parliament
Several people were killed when a powerful suicide car bomb exploded near Somalia’s parliament in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday,…
Somali lawmaker assassinated, Shebab claims responsibility
Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab claimed responsiblity for shooting dead a lawmaker and wounding another on Thursday, the latest in a surge…
Gunmen kill five in fresh Kenya attack
At least five people have been killed in a new attack on Kenya’s coast, officials said Tuesday, one week after…
Over 20 killed in Kenya clashes
At least 20 people have been killed in Kenya in ethnic clashes in the restive northeast, the latest in a…
Shebab kills 10 in fresh attack in Kenya
At least 10 people have been killed in a new overnight attack near Kenya’s coast, police said Tuesday, with Somalia’s…
Islamist gunmen kill at least 26 in attack
At least 26 people were killed when some 50 insurgents flying black Islamist flags swept into a Kenyan coastal town…
Kenyan Muslim preacher shot dead
Gunmen in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa on Tuesday shot dead an influential moderate Muslim preacher who was a…