NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somalia’s al-Shabab Islamic extremist group says it has executed four men accused of spying for the British, Djibouti and Somali intelligence agencies. Al-Shabab announced the killings on its Andalus radio station…
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A police officer in Somalia says a car bomb blast near a security checkpoint at the presidential palace in the capital killed at least two people. Capt. Mohamed Hussein said that…
A senior Somali military commander was killed in a powerful roadside explosion near the capital, Mogadishu, Tuesday just two months after his several other senior officers were killed in the same area by an improvised…
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A car bomb exploded at a shopping mall in Somalia’s capital on Monday, killing 11 people and wounding 10 in an attack that police said was probably carried out by Islamist group…
Two car bombs killed at least 23 people in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police said, two weeks after a huge truck bomb killed hundreds of civilians in the city. Islamist group al Shabaab claimed…
BOSASO, SOMALIA — Islamist militants attacked a checkpoint in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region, killing at least five people in the early hours of Monday, police said. The fighters from the al Shabaab group then ambushed…
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Al Shabaab militants attacked a military base near Somalia’s southern port city of Kismayu early on Sunday, a Somali army officer said, adding that he did not immediately have details of any…
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Fighting between al Shabaab fighters and Somali government troops and the African Union peacekeepers killed 24 people on Sunday, a regional official said, with the Islamist militants putting the death toll higher….
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – Four police officers and a civilian were killed on Wednesday and two more police are missing after their truck hit a landmine on a road along Kenya’s northern coast, a police…
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali Islamist militants said they publicly stoned one man to death and shot dead another on Monday after both were accused of raping a girl in central Somalia. A senior militant spokesman…