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…