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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]
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.
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 ]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...