Somalia’s security forces conducted a military operation killing 81 Al-Shabaab fighters, the Somali Minister of Information confirmed. Special Forces attacked the Al-Shabaab camp in Jilib district on Saturday, based in the Middle Jubba region in [ More … ]
Four Somali soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb and two others were injured yesterday, according to reports in Al Jazeera. The improvised explosive device exploded in the town of Baidoa, south west of the [ More … ]
Militants from Somali al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab group beheaded men in a Kenyan village on Saturday, in a cross-border raid. Nine Kenyan civilians have been brutally murdered by Somali militants following a cross border raid by [ More … ]
At least 20 people were being held hostage at a Pizza restaurant in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Wednesday evening, after an al-Shabab suicide bomber killed six. Dozens of people were being held hostage in the [ More … ]
A US military airstrike destroyed an al-Shabab training camp, killing eight suspected militants, officials said. The US military in Africa says it carried out an airstrike in southern Somalia that killed eight alleged al-Shabab militants [ More … ]
Women were among scores killed by al-Qaeda militants in Somalia, which included close-quarter slaughter and beheading by al-Shabab militants. Al-Shabab militants stormed a military base in Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland, leaving 70 dead and [ More … ]
A regional leader of the Al-Shabab extremist group has been killed in a raid by Somalia’s military, the government announced Sunday, as the country’s new offensive against the fighters moves ahead. The statement by Somalia’s [ More … ]
Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has declared war against Al Shabaab and extended amnesty to those who will renounce the terrorist group over the next 60 days, effective Thursday, April 6. “Fighters who renounce their [ More … ]
At least seven people have been killed and ten wounded in a car bomb attack at a restaurant near the Somali ministry of internal security in Mogadishu. A massive car bomb blast at a restaurant [ More … ]
The mayor of Mogadishu, speaking during a visit by Turkey’s deputy prime minister, said Mogadishu was ready for more foreign investment as its security and infrastructure situation improves. The capital of Somalia is now open [ More … ]
Copyright © 2016 | Middle East Observer