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Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (Arabic: حركة الشباب المجاهدين, romanized: Ḥarakat ash-Shabāb al-Mujāhidīn, lit. 'Youth Mujahideen Movement'), commonly known as al-Shabaab, [note 1] is a transnational Salafi Jihadist [32] [33] military and political organization based in Somalia and active elsewhere in East Africa.
Al-Shabaab claims they killed 57 soldiers, while the Somali Government claims 10 soldiers died in the attack. Ten insurgents were also killed. [235] June 8: 2024 El Dher attack. Al-Shabaab militants attacked four military bases and overran the town of El Dher for several hours killing at least 25 people, including five Somali National Army ...
Al-Shabaab's "Ethiopian Front", led by Ali Diyaar, was known to have taken part in the operation. [3] The rebels advanced 150 kilometres (93 mi) into Ethiopian territory. [ 6 ] They captured the town of Hulhul , [ 14 ] but were encircled there by Somali Region paramilitary forces [ 8 ] on 22 July. [ 9 ]
Somalia's army and allied fighters on Friday captured the town of El Buur, the al Shabaab militia's main stronghold in the country's central region, a significant breakthrough in the government's ...
Ethiopian forces engaged in fierce clashes with al Shabaab fighters near the town of Rab Dhuure in western Somalia on Sunday morning, local residents said. At around 9 a.m. (0600 GMT) local ...
Since October 2017, the "general commander" or emir of Tahrir al-Sham is Abu Mohammad al-Julani, who is also Tahrir al-Sham's "military commander" and the emir of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, who also led its predecessor organisation al-Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda until 2016.
Al-Shabaab also claimed to have killed 59 soldiers and fighters and published purported pictures of their fighters in at least one camp they claimed to have overrun. [ 5 ] [ 1 ] Two military officers, Colonel Yonis Hassan Sabriye and Colonel Abdulle Mohamud Abdi, were confirmed killed in the attack.
However, in July 2016, Jabhat al-Nusra dissolved and formally severed its public ties with al-Qaeda, and the re-formed group eventually merged with others in the region to establish HTS in January ...