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Security officers patrol near the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia

Somali forces end hotel siege, death toll reaches 21

Somali forces have ended a deadly siege at a hotel in the capital Mogadishu which saw morethan 20 people killed and dozens of hostages freed, authorities said today.

Somalia • 21 Aug 22

The car bomb exploded in a busy part of Mogadishu

Eleven dead in car bomb attack in Mogadishu

Elevan people have been killed and 10 others injured after a car bomb exploded at a shopping mall in Somalia's capital.

World • 04 Feb 19

Woman are evacuated from the scene of the attack

Gunmen kill 14 in Kenya hotel compound attack

Gunmen have killed at least 14 people in an attack on a hotel and office complex in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, claimed by Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab.

World • 15 Jan 19

Somali security offciers take positions as they fight attackers in front of the hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia

At least 15 die in Mogadishu hotel attack

Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group launched a suicide bomb attack on a hotel in the centre of Mogadishu today before militant fighters stormed the building, a police officer said.

News • 25 Jun 16

Al-Shabaab attack kills 13 in Mogadishu

At least 13 people have been killed after Somalia's al-Shabaab Islamist militant group drove a car packed with explosives at the gate of a hotel in the capital, Mogadishu.

News • 27 Jul 15

14 people were killed in an attack on a hotel in Moghadishu by Al Shabaab in March

At least five killed in Somali attack

Al Shabaab militants have attacked the higher education ministry building in the Somali capital of Moghadishu.

News • 14 Apr 15

President Uhuru Kenyatta has vowed to respond to the Garissa University attacks in the 'severest way' possible

Kenya in air strikes against two al-Shabaab camps

Kenya has carried out an airstrike targeting two al-Shabaab camps in Somalia in the first major military response to last week's attack by the militant group on a Kenyan university.

News • 06 Apr 15

Catholic Church faithfuls take part in a proccession to re-enact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Machakos

Kenyan official's son involved in Garissa attack

Authorities in Kenya have said they have identified one of the four dead al-Shabaab gunmen who massacred nearly 150 people at Garissa University as an ethnic-Somali Kenyan national and law graduate.

News • 05 Apr 15

A rescued student (C) is overcome by grief as she waits to be transported home from Garissa town

Five arrested in connection with Kenya attack

Five people have been arrested in connection with the attack on a Kenyan university that killed at least 148 people, according to Kenyan Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery.

News • 05 Apr 15

Al-Shabaab militants have carried out several suicide bombing in Mogadishu

Al-Shabaab leader killed in US airstrike

An unmanned US aircraft that unleashed Hellfire missiles at a vehicle in Somalia earlier this week killed a leader of the al- Shabaab militant group.

News • 31 Dec 14

Police investigating murder of Russian tourist in Mombasa

Russian tourist shot dead in Kenya

A Russian tourist has been shot dead while touring a historical site in Kenya's port city of Mombasa.

News • 06 Jul 14

Somali coastal town raided overnight

Somali al-Shabaab militants said British and Turkish special forces had raided a coastal town overnight, killing a rebel fighter, but that a British officer had also been killed and others injured.

News • 05 Oct 13

President Uhuru Kenyatta attends the funerals of some of the victims of the attack

Three freed in Kenya mall attack inquiry

Three people arrested in connection with last weekend's attack on a Nairobi shopping centre have been released, Kenya's interior minister has said.

News • 27 Sep 13

Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Westgate complex

Al-Shabaab leader confirms Kenya attack

The leader of the Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabaab has confirmed claims by members of his group that it was behind the attack on a Nairobi shopping centre.

News • 25 Sep 13

Kenyan security forces launched an attack this morning

Kenyan forces end siege in Nairobi shopping centre

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that armed forces have "ashamed and defeated" the al-Shabaab militants that attacked the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi.

News • 24 Sep 13

Terrorist group Al-Shabaab claimed that members of its martyrdom brigade carried out the attack

Irish soldiers safe following Somali attack

The Defence Forces has confirmed that four Irish soldiers are unharmed following a terrorist attack on a United Nations compound in Somalia.

News • 19 Jun 13

Mogadishu targeted by al-Shabaab militants

16 killed in Mogadishu bomb attack

At least 16 people were killed as two car bombs exploded outside the law courts in Somalia's capital Mogadishu and gunmen stormed the building.

News • 14 Apr 13

Al Shabaab wants to impose its strict version of sharia, or Islamic law, across Somalia

Somalia's al-Shabaab on Twitter after suspension

Somalia's Islamist al-Shabaab militants, who have used Twitter to announce assassinations and bombings, are back on the microblog service two weeks after their account was suspended.

News • 05 Feb 13

African Union and Somali troops launched an attack on Kismayo

Somali militants withdraw from base

Somalia's al Shabaab rebels have withdrawn from the southern city of Kismayu overnight.

News • 29 Sep 12

AU and Somali troops join to fight al shabaab

AU and Somali forces clash with al Shabaab

African Union and Somali government troops have stepped up their assault on al Shabaab militants.

News • 23 May 12

A victim of a suicide attack is carried on a stretcher

Female bomber kills Somali sports chiefs

At least six people, including two of Somalia's top sports officials, have been killed after a female suicide bomber struck a ceremony at Mogadishu's national theatre.

News • 04 Apr 12

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