Al-Shabaab (militant group)

Somalia-based cell of the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda

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Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, more commonly known as al-Shabaab, is a terrorist, jihadist fundamentalist group based in East Africa.

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Al Shabaab is moving millions through banks: U.N. A U.N. report due to be published this week details the "strong financial position" of Somali militant group al Shabaab - including how it is moving millions of dollars through the formal banking.. Credit: Reuters Studio Duration: 01:54Published on October 14, 2020

Women's basektball a surprise hit in Somali capital VIDEO SHOWS: WOMEN AND GIRLS PLAYING BASKETBALL IN SOMALIAN CAPITAL OF MOGADISHU / INTERVIEWS WITH PLAYERS AND COACHES, WHO EXPLAIN SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THEY FACE, INCLUDING THREATS FROM AL SHABAAB Credit: Reuters - Sports Duration: 07:40Published on October 5, 2020

Somali women's basketball team thrives under pressure VIDEO SHOWS: WOMEN AND GILRS PLAYING BASKETBALL IN SOMALIAN CAPITAL OF MOGADISHU / INTERVIEWS WITH PLAYERS AND COACHES, WHO EXPLAIN SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THEY FACE, INCLUDING THREATS FROM AL SHABAAB Credit: Reuters - Sports Duration: 07:40Published on October 5, 2020

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Life after al-Shabab: Driving a school bus instead of an armed pickup truck The Somali government retrains defectors from the al-Shabab militant group as barbers, drivers, mechanics and tailors. BBC News - Published 3 days ago
Somalia conflict: Al-Shabab 'collects more revenue than government' Al-Shabab uses threats and violence to extort the money from Somalis, a new report says. BBC News - Published on October 26, 2020
Westgate: Two found guilty over Kenya shopping mall attack At least 67 people died in the assault by al-Shabab on Nairobi's Westgate shopping complex in 2013. BBC News - Published on October 7, 2020

Mogadishu attack: Somali troops battle gunmen who stormed Elite Hotel Troops battle suspected al-Shabab militants who stormed the Elite Hotel in the capital, Mogadishu. BBC News - Published on August 16, 2020
Al-Shabab militants in shoot-out in Somalia prison At least 10 people are killed in a heavy exchange of fire at a jail in Somalia, officials say. BBC News - Published on August 11, 2020
Somalia restaurant attack: Six killed by al-Shabab Militant group al-Shabab said it carried out the bomb explosion in the town of Baidoa. BBC News - Published on July 4, 2020

Somalia's Islamist group al Shabaab says sets up COVID-19 treatment centre Somalia's Islamist group al Shabaab said on Friday they had set up a COVID-19 treatment centre in the country, and said the disease posed a grave threat, citing international health authorities. Reuters - Published on June 12, 2020
Suicide bombing in Somalia kills governor, three others in Puntland: police The governor of Mudug, a region in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland, was killed with three of his bodyguards in a suicide car bombing on Sunday that was claimed by Islamist group al Shabaab,.. Reuters - Published on May 17, 2020
US reports deaths of civilians in Somali air strike An operation that killed two al-Shabab militants also killed two civilians and injured three more. BBC News - Published on April 27, 2020
Senior figure in Somalia's al Shabaab killed in air strike: state media A senior commander in Somalia's al Shabaab group with a $5 million bounty on his head was killed in an American air strike last month, according to Somalia state media, a blow to the militants'.. Reuters - Published on March 8, 2020

Al-Shabab's Bashir Mohamed Qorgab 'killed in air strike in Somalia' The US military was hunting for the jihadist, but it has not yet commented on reports of his death. BBC News - Published on March 8, 2020
Three teachers killed in suspected militant attack near Kenya's Somalia border: police Three teachers were killed near Kenya's border with Somalia in a suspected attack by al Shabaab militants early on Monday, police said, in what appeared to be the latest in a string of assaults by the.. Reuters - Published on January 13, 2020
Three teachers killed near Kenya's Somalia border in a suspected militant attack: police Three teachers were killed in Kenya near the country's border with Somalia in a suspected attack by al Shabaab militants, a police report seen by Reuters said on Monday, in what would be the latest.. Reuters - Published on January 13, 2020	Islamist group al Shabaab claims Somalia bomb attack that killed three Islamist militant group al Shabaab said it was responsible for a bomb blast on Wednesday near the presidential palace and other government buildings in Somalia's capital Mogadishu that city authorities.. Reuters - Published on January 8, 2020
Four Kenyan school children killed in al Shabaab attack on telecom mast Four Kenyan school children were killed in a gunfight on Tuesday between police and al Shabaab militants from Somalia who attacked a telecommunications mast in the third such deadly incident in Kenya.. Reuters - Published on January 7, 2020	U.S. bolsters Kenya base security after Americans killed in attack The U.S. military deployed additional forces to Kenya on Monday to bolster security at a key airfield after an attack by al Shabaab militants on Sunday that killed three Americans, the military's.. Reuters - Published on January 6, 2020
Three Americans killed in al Shabaab militant attack on base in Kenya Three Americans - one U.S. military servicemember and two contractors - were killed by Somalia's al Shabaab militant group during an attack on Sunday on a military base in Kenya used by both U.S. and.. Reuters - Published on January 5, 2020	U.S. service member, contractors killed in militant attack in Kenya One U.S. military service member and two contractors were killed on Sunday during an attack by Somalia's al Shabaab militant group on a military base in Kenya, the U.S. military said in a statement. Reuters - Published on January 5, 2020
Islamist group al Shabaab attack Kenya base used by Kenyan, U.S. forces Somalia's al Shabaab militant group attacked on Sunday a military base in Kenya used by both U.S. and Kenyan forces and published pictures of masked gunmen standing next to an aircraft in flames. Reuters - Published on January 5, 2020	Al-Shabab militants attack Kenya and US naval base Witnesses report hearing gunfire and seeing plumes of black smoke coming from an airstrip. BBC News - Published on January 5, 2020
Islamist group al Shabaab attacks military base in Kenya's Lamu county Somalia's Islamist group al Shabaab has stormed a military base in Lamu county in Kenya's coastal region used by both United States and Kenyan military personnel, a source and al Shabaab said, but it.. Reuters - Published on January 5, 2020	Al Qaeda ally claims responsibility for Somalia blast that killed 90 people Islamist group al Shabaab on Monday claimed responsibility for a bomb blast in Mogadishu that killed at least 90 people over the weekend while Somalia said a foreign government that it did not identify.. Reuters - Published on December 31, 2019
Somali militants claim responsibility for attack outside Somali hotel: spokesman Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for Saturday's attack outside a hotel in the town of Galkayo, in the country's Mudug region, which killed at least seven civilians,.. Reuters - Published on December 22, 2019	Somali security forces kill 5 al Shabaab fighters to end hotel siege Somali security forces shot dead five Al Shabaab gunmen, who had killed three civilians and two soldiers during an attack on a hotel near the presidential residence in Mogadishu on Tuesday night,.. Reuters - Published on December 11, 2019
Al Shabaab gunmen attack hotel near president's residence in Somali capital: police, group Al Shabaab gunmen attacked a hotel in Somalia's capital near the president's residence on Tuesday and fighting was still going on, police and the militant group said. Reuters - Published on December 10, 2019	Kenya police officers among 10 killed in bus attack Kenyan police officers were among those killed when gunmen suspected to be from Islamist militant group al Shabaab attacked a bus on Friday near the border with Somalia, President Uhuru Kenyatta's.. Reuters - Published on December 7, 2019
US in Somalia: Is it still a safe haven for al-Shabab? The US is reopening its embassy in Mogadishu - but what's the country's involvement there? BBC News - Published on October 8, 2019	U.S. re-opens embassy in Somali capital amid persisting Islamist violence The United States announced on Wednesday it had re-opened its embassy in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, nearly three decades after it was shut down, underscoring deepening ties between the two nations.. Reuters - Published on October 2, 2019
Jihadists 'attack US Baledogle training base in Somalia' Al-Shabab militants reportedly blasted through the gates and sent fighters inside. BBC News - Published on September 30, 2019	Somalia’s al Shabaab raid military base, loot weapons Fighters belonging to Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab stormed an army base near the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, looted it for weapons and then withdrew, a military source, residents and the.. Reuters - Published on September 22, 2019
Ethiopia says it detains suspected Islamist militants planning attacks Ethiopia said on Saturday it had arrested an unspecified number of Islamist militant members of the Somali group al Shabaab and Islamic State who were planning to carry out attacks in the country on.. Reuters - Published on September 21, 2019	Leader of Somalia's Jubbaland, at odds with Mogadishu, wins new term The president of Jubbaland, a Somali region critical to East Africa's fight against the Islamist militants of al Shabaab, won a new term on Thursday, highlighting a growing rift between the federal.. Reuters - Published on August 22, 2019
President of Somali state of Jubbaland re-elected in divisive vote The president of Somalia's southern Jubbaland state, a region still partly held by al Shabaab, won a fresh term in office on Thursday, the parliamentary speaker said, amid heightened strains between.. Reuters - Published on August 22, 2019	Car bombs shake Somali military base, deaths reported A government military base in south Somalia was struck by car bombs and gunfire on Wednesday, residents and military officers said, with the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group claiming responsibility and.. Reuters - Published on August 14, 2019
Car bombs, gunfire hit government military base in southern Somalia: residents, officer A government military base in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia was struck by car bombs and gunfire on Wednesday, residents and a military officer said, and the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group.. Reuters - Published on August 14, 2019	Hodan Nalayeh prize: Somalia to honour journalist murdered by al-Shabab Hodan Nalayeh relocated to Somalia last year to help rebuild the country of her birth. BBC News - Published on July 16, 2019
Somalia executes three al Shabaab members over 2017 hotel attack Somalia executed three men on Wednesday convicted of participating in the bombing of a Mogadishu hotel that killed 18 people in 2017 as members of the insurgent group al Shabaab, the state-run news.. Reuters - Published on July 10, 2019	Three al Shabaab fighters killed in Kenya after attack on police Security forces in Kenya killed three suspected militants from Somalia's Islamist group al Shabaab after they attacked a police outpost in Garissa county near the border, police said on Saturday. Reuters - Published on June 22, 2019
Militants killed while attacking Kenya police base They are believed to have been fighters from the Somalia-based al-Shabab Islamist group, police say. BBC News - Published on June 22, 2019	Al Shabaab kill 16 in Kenya and Somalia blasts Somali militants killed eight Kenyan police with a roadside bomb near the border between the two countries on Saturday, officials said, while another eight died in a bombing the same group carried out.. Reuters - Published on June 15, 2019
Roadside bomb kills several police officers in east Kenya No-one has admitted planting the explosives in east Wajir county, but suspicion falls on al-Shabab militants. BBC News - Published on June 15, 2019

Al-Shabaab (militant group)

Somalia-based cell of the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda

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Three teachers killed near Kenya's Somalia border in a suspected militant attack: police

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