Al Shabaab

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The Somali authorities on Saturday accused Kenya of hosting a militia. illegally arming and equipping them in Mandera with the intention of destabilizing the nation. The nation's info ministry has stated that FGS obtained info indicating that Kenya is planning an assault on the border city of Beled-Hawo within the Gedo area, focusing on Somali military bases. Somalia warned Kenya towards aggression and unlawful acts at its border that would undermine stability within the already fragile Horn of…

GALKAYO, Somalia - A high commander with the Somali National Military is amongst these killed in an Al-Shabaab assault in Galkayo metropolis in central Somalia, officers have confirmed, within the newest lethal assault concentrating on harmless civilians, amid repression of militants. Normal Abdiaziz Abdullahi Qoje, commander of the twenty first Division of the Somali Nationwide Military, was captured within the unlucky explosion and was among the many 17 individuals who died on the spot, following the bomb blast…

WASHINGTON - The Division of Justice inside the US has charged a Kenyan nationwide believed to be an Al-Shabaab member for planning to conduct 9/11 assaults inside the US, and he had reportedly educated to hijack aircraft inside the far east sooner than embarking on the mission.

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The rising insurgency in Somalia continues to set off regional stability with the militants now turning in direction of each other if the least bit a video posted by ISIS is one thing to go by, given its condemnation as soon as extra the Al-Shabaab, a gaggle which declared allegiance to Al-Qaeda in 2010.

NAIROBI, Kenya - A excessive US army officer visited Kenya on Tuesday, his second journey to Nairobi in as many months, amid plans by Washington to withdraw close to 700 servicemen who're serving to throughout the battle in opposition to Al-Shabaab in Somalia, a country that is combating instability ensuing from frequent inter-clan conflicts, sturdy inside politics and rising insurgency.

A Kenyan court on Wednesday found two men guilty of their role in helping al-Shabaab gunmen who attacked the Westgate shopping center in Nairobi in 2013 and killed 67 people. A third man accused of the attack was acquitted. Following a trial that began in January 2014, Judge Francis Andayi found that Mohamed Ahmed Abdi and Hassan Hussein Mustafa conspired with and assisted the four assailants who died in a siege claimed by the Somali-based al-Qaida-based group. The third accused, Liban Abdullahi Omar, was acquitted of…