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Uganda in Bind Over Fighting al-Qaida Group

KAMPALA, Uganda (Nov. 28) -- Four months after an al-Qaida-linked group blew up two night spots here in what is among Africa's safest capital cities, Francis Semwogerere remains in a hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, shrapnel from the blast lodged in his throat and spinal column and leaving him paralyzed...

California Woman Charged With Aiding Terror Group

SAN DIEGO (Nov. 15) -- A California woman has been charged with conspiring to provide money and people to a Somali terrorist group to help carry out killings in the African nation, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday. Nima Ali Yusuf, a 24-year-old permanent resident of the U.S., conspired in Southern...

Suspect in UK Plots Is Linked to Cargo Bomb Terrorists

LONDON (Nov. 3) -- A member of the terrorist group blamed for last week's failed cargo bomb plot was arrested in England earlier this year on suspicion of planning attacks in Britain, a top official revealed today. Although the arrest of that suspect -- identified by the Daily Mail as a former British Airways computer...

Somali Militants Execute 2 Girls Accused of Spying

MOGADISHU, Somalia (Oct. 28) - The two accused spies died amid a fusillade of bullets from a firing squad organized by a hardline Islamist militia. The condemned pair were only girls, aged 15 and 18, and their grieving relatives say they were uneducated, usually stayed at home and could not have spied for...

Dutch Police Arrest Brit Terror Suspect at Amsterdam Airport

(Sept. 20) -- A British man of Somali origin has been arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on suspicion of involvement with a foreign terrorist organization. The man -- who was traveling from the English city of Liverpool to Entebbe in Uganda via the Netherlands -- was arrested by Dutch military police just as his...

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U.S. Marines Train African Union Troops To Fight Somalia's Al Shabab (PHOTOS)

American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia's most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab.

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Ayman Al Zawahiri, Al Qaeda Leader, Urges Somali Al Shabab Militants To Fight In Video

Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has released a new video in which he encourages Somali militants to fight on despite the challenges.

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05/31/12 Venezuela bombs airstrips in anti-drug effort Source: Amarillo.com Venezuela's military bombed 36 clandestine airstrips in the South American country's southern plains during May as part of an effort to shut down air routes used by drug smugglers, a top government official said Thursday.
05/31/12 Fighters threaten Kenyan skyscrapers Source: IOL A private intelligence firm says the Somali militant group al-Shabaab has threatened to bring down Kenya's skyscrapers within two weeks - a warning that followed a bomb attack in Nairobi's city centre.
05/31/12 Somalia Forces Capture Key Al-Shabab Town of Afmadow Source: Antiwar.com African Union and Somali government forces have captured the town of Afmadow, a strategic militant base in the south of the country.
05/31/12 Fertilizer bomb suspected in Nairobi IED blast Source: Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas NV Police announced that an improvised explosive device caused a blast that ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi, with one official saying it may have been a fertilizer bomb.
05/31/12 FOUR DADAAB POLICE WOUNDED NEAR BORDER WITH SOMALIA Source: Coast Week Four Kenyan policemen were wounded Tuesday in an ambush by suspected Somali gunmen in the restive frontier region bordering war-ravaged Somalia, authorities said Wednesday.

Background on al shabab

Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (HSM) (; ', "Mujahideen Youth Movement" or "Movement of Striving Youth"), more commonly known as al-Shabaab (, "The Youth" or "The Boys"), is the Somalia-based cell of the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda, formally recognized in 2012. As of 2012, the outfit controls large swathes of the southern parts of the country, where it is said to have imposed its own strict form of Sharia law.

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