Category: News

Home » News » Page 2126
EU raises security level for Somalia team after Kenya attack
Post

EU raises security level for Somalia team after Kenya attack

By Adrian Croft BRUSSELS, The European Union has increased security precautions for its military advisers in Somalia after the deadly attack by Somali Islamists on a Kenyan shopping mall, it said on Thursday. The EU has 120 military experts, split between the Somali capital Mogadishu and Uganda, training and advising Somali security forces battling the...

Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Post

Warka Raadiyo Wardheer

Warka Raadiyo Wardheer: Qoddobada warka aad ku maqli doontaan waxaa ka mid ah,Xasan Shiikh oo kulama la qaatay madaxda waddamada Turkiga, Qadar iyo Mareykanka iyo warar kale

Pakistani terror trainer behind Kenyan mall attack?
Post

Pakistani terror trainer behind Kenyan mall attack?

A Pakistani-origin man is believed to be the security and training chief of Al-Qaeda linked Shahab group that carried out the horrific attack at an upscale Kenyan mall killing at least 59 people. Abu Musa Mombasa, a Pakistani citizen, serves as Shabaabs’s chief of security and training, the Long War Journal had said in a...

Al-Shabaab’s American recruitment drive: ‘Betray the US and join “the real Disneyland” of African jihad’
Post

Al-Shabaab’s American recruitment drive: ‘Betray the US and join “the real Disneyland” of African jihad’

Teenage boys in America’s biggest Somali community are being urged to betray the US and join “the real Disneyland” of African jihad, in an aggressive recruitment drive by al-Shabaab. By Jon Swaine in Minneapolis Teenage boys in America’s biggest Somali community are being urged to betray the United States and join “the real Disneyland” of...

Kenya mall attack unlikely to alter U.S. approach to Shabab
Post

Kenya mall attack unlikely to alter U.S. approach to Shabab

By Ken Dilanian WASHINGTON — The deadly mall attack in Kenya is unlikely to change the Obama administration’s restrained approach to Shabab, the Somali-based terrorist group that claimed responsibility for the violence and that has been the target of occasional U.S. military action, American officials and counter-terrorism analysts say. Pushed out of territory in Somalia it once controlled and...

Kenya mall siege a ‘message to Westerners’
Post

Kenya mall siege a ‘message to Westerners’

The Al-Qaeda-linked group behind the massacre at a Nairobi mall says the attack was a warning to Westerners who backed Kenya’s invasion of Somalia. The Nairobi mall carnage in which several foreigners were killed by Islamist fighters was a “message to Westerners” who supported Kenya, Somalia’s Al-Shabab chief says. In an audio message on Wednesday,...

Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Post

Warka Raadiyo Wardheer

Warka Raadiyo Wardheer: Qodobada warka aad ku maqli doontaan waxaa ka mid ah,  madaxweynaha Soomaaliya oo kulamo la qaatay madaxda ka qeb-galeysa shirka golaha amaanka, howl-galkii westgete oo lasoo gaba gabeeyay iyo warar kale

Good governance will end Al Shabab’s terror
Post

Good governance will end Al Shabab’s terror

Gulf News In the aftermath of the attack on the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, in which at least 67 people were killed, it is clear that the extremist Al Shabab must be eliminated from Somalia if terrorism in East Africa is to be effectively tackled. Under a new leader, Ahmad Abdi Godane, Al Shabab...

Somalis in Kenya fearful after Nairobi mall attack
Post

Somalis in Kenya fearful after Nairobi mall attack

By Abdullahi Mire DADAAB (KENYA) (AFP) –  Impoverished Somali refugee camps in northern Kenya could not be more different from upmarket malls in the capital Nairobi, but attacks by Somalia’s Shebab insurgents have affected them both. Now, as Kenya reels from a four-day siege by the Al-Qaeda-linked gunmen in Westgate mall, Somalis in the country are...