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This was a resumption of an earlier trend of al-Shabaab recruitment among Americans, which previously had peaked in 2007–08. [223] Also in 2011, two Somali Americans in Minnesota were convicted of illegally financing al-Shabaab. [222] By mid-2013, observers believed that recruitment of U.S. citizens had subsided. [224]
Despite the efforts, Somalia has strongly hesitant about Ethiopian support, with Somalia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs saying that Ethiopia’s presence has only increased Al-Qaeda-backed Al-Shabaab activity and that little to no development was made.
According to the report, a task force in Somalia verified the recruitment and use of 6,163 children – 5,993 boys and 230 girls – during the period from April 1, 2010, to July 31, 2016, with more than 30 percent of the cases in 2012, with the Somali National Army accounted for 920 children serving. Al-Shabaab accounted for, seventy percent ...
Weapons provided to al-Shabaab present a threat to the Somali government, U.S. forces and commercial shipping passing through the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Gulf of Aden from the shores of East ...
On 19 March 2016 two Kenyan soldiers were killed and five others wounded when their convoy was ambushed by terrorists in Lower Juba. During the engagement 21 al-Shabaab fighters were reported killed. [317] al-Shabaab lost several of their leaders to U.S. airstrikes during May 2016. [318] [319] al-Shabaab fighters attacked an AMISOM base in June ...
3 May 2022- Al-Shabaab jihadists armed with guns and explosives stormed an ATMIS military camp in El Baraf, Middle Shabelle region, [13] triggering a fierce firefight killing 30 soldiers and wounding another 22 Burundian peacekeepers, according to a high-ranking Burundian military officer. A dozen soldiers were also declared missing.
Shahada News Agency (Arabic: وكالة شهادة الإخبارية, romanized: Wakālat shahādat al-ikhbārīyah, Somali: Wakaalada Wararka ee Shahada) is an news agency of the militant organization, Al-Shabaab, and is used as the main disseminator for news in Arabic as well as English translations relating to attacks done by al-Shabaab and other operations including executions.
By the time Ethiopia launched its invasion of Somalia in December 2006 to oust Somali Islamists from power, as many as 5,000 young men were thought to have been recruited into al-Shabaab in Mogadishu alone. Notably, al-Shabaab's command structure had become decentralized, with the group broken down into cells. This decentralization allowed ...