10 month agoA suicide bomber targeted chairman of Jubbaland chamber of commerce outside a mosque in the port city of Kismayo on Friday. 3 people including a security guard & suicide bomber killed 7 others wounded. Shafi'i Rabi chamber of commerce chairman is also seriously injured
At least two people were killed and more than five wounded after a suicide bomber detonated in front of the Qadim Mosque in Kismayo.
Suicide bomber detonates outside a mosque in Kismayo, there are number of casualties, residents said. Sources say bomber targeted chairman of Jubbaland Chamber of Commerce Shaafi Raabi Kaahin who is seriously injured in the explosion. Mr Kaahi was walking when attacked
7 mortar shells fell on separate neighborhoods of the Somali capital, Mogadishu
10 month agoUS-India Joint Statement on Counter Terrorism Joint Working Group & Designations Dialogue. Denounced use of terrorist proxies & strongly condemned cross-border terrorism in all its forms. Need for concerted action against al-Qa'ida, ISIS/Daesh, Lashkar, Jaish & Hizbul
IED blast near a teashop kills two, injuries four in the town of El-Wak, Gedo region on Thursday, local media
10 month agoThree people have been killed and seven others injured in a suicide bombing outside a Blue Sky restaurant in the northern city of Mogadishu, officials say. The dead include an unidentified baby boy.
10 month agoHuge blast in Mogadishu near presidential palace
Three dead including a child, seven others were injured after an explosion from suicide bombing in front of Blue Sky cafeteria, central Mogadishu - witnesses
Huge explosion reported near Somalia Presidential palace in Mogadishu. Casualties feared. Details Sketchy
Somalia @USAfricaCommand has confirmed the alShabab leader killed in August strike was Abdulqadit Commandos
Qasim Ali Noor, Balad district commissioner confirms that al Shabaab has on Tuesday early morning attacked the security checkpoints on the outside of the district. Local residents say that the fighters have entered into neighborhoods. Casualties unknown
Danab and Jubbaland regional forces have informed the public that all the roads within 5km of Jana Abdalle have been closed as they conduct an operation to clear Al-Shabaab militants from the area. It follows after Monday's VBIED attack on Somali, US outpost in the area
[email protected] spokesman Colonel Chris Karns tells VOA that one US soldier injured in Al-Shabaab attack in Jana Abdalle area, 60 km northwest of Kismayo, Somalia on Monday. Al Shabaab claims it has killed 4 US soldiers and 16 Somali soldiers trained by the US
U.S. military service member wounded in Somalia during attack by al-Qaeda linked fighters using a car bomb and mortar fire: statement
A Somali official: 3 wounded, including an American officer, in a car bomb explosion
Two members of the Somali special forces were killed in a car explosion in the south of the country
Massive explosion believed to be a car bomb targets US, Kenyan and Somali troops at Jana Abdalle village about 60km Northwest of the Somali coastal city of Kismayo. Intense small arms fire also reported, casualties feared - Attack is ongoing, per local reports
10 month agoGeolocated a Houthi fighter capturing an alleged AQAP/ISIS hilltop site in an AUG 27 video. He appears to be near Al-Qahwah, Tibbat al-Safah/al-Sufian, & Jabal al-Shoub in Zaharah, al-Bayda, Yemen. Possible Location: 14.676671, 44.851533
10 month agoTwo people were wounded when a planted roadside bomb exploded near Mogadishu's Sayid junction tonight. Somalia
10 month agoAl-Shabab, unsurprisingly, claimed that recent clashes around Ba'adweyne in Mudug were with "government militia" and not, as @HarunMaruf reports, with local villagers resistant to the insurgent group's forced recruitment and seizure of weapons
At least 12 people were killed in a confrontation between al Shabaab and armed villagers near Ba'adweyn village in Mudug region on Friday. AlShabaab claims to have killed and wounded 8 others during the fighting but multiple sources saying that both sides suffered casualties
11 month agoUS AFRICOM: Al-Shabaab: the nature of this enemy --- "This Al-Qaeda aligned terrorist organization increasingly employs lies, engages in criminal acts & blends into communities to create fear & intimidate local populations." - Colonel Karns, director of public affairs
11 month agoTurkish military: "in the scope of the Military Financial Cooperation between Turkey and Somalia, 12 mine-resistant armored personnel carriers KİRPİ, were handed over to Somali authorities in Mogadishu harbor."
11 month agoUS AFRICOM says it has killed a senior al-Shabaab leader in an airstrike near Saakow. Somalia
11 month agoAl-Shabaab is claiming to have wounded an American soldier and killed 4 Somali SOF soldiers in twin bombings southwest of Mogadishu. Somalia
11 month agoYemen: AQAP breaks 3-week silence with new statement Arrest of spy network in Bayda'; Formally adopts killing & crucifixion of dentist; USA Saudi UAE recruit doctors as spies; USA also coordinates with Houthis; Patients blackmailed to inform using compromising photos
Officials confirmed to the local media that 10 al Shabaab fighters have been killed while three others captured alive in an operation conducted by Puntland special forces in Habar Hunbulo valley in Almadow mountains in Bari region on Friday. Somalia
The US military conducted an airstrike that killed an al Shabaab member terrorist in the vicinity of Kurtun Warey, Somalia, Thursday. The target "was making preparations to emplace Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) on a public road," according to @USAfricaCommand
11 month agoTwo men were executed in Baidoa town in Southwest Somalia after they were accused of kidnapping & gang rapping a 9 years old boy to death. The act ignited public anger. The two confessed the accusations at a court in Baidoa and they were executed by a firing squad
