Al-Shabaab

Suicide bombers killed at least 13 people at the gates of the African Union’s main peacekeeping base in the Somali capital on Tuesday, police said, in an attack claimed by the Islamist militants of al Shabaab. The force of the bombings shattered windows at Mogadishu’s nearby airport, showered arriving passengers with glass and forced the […]

Panamanian officials sold visas for transit purposes to members of Hezbollah and al-Shabaab—both known for their role in the drug trade and narco-terror.

Somalia’s al-Shabaab militants have come under renewed pressure from the US and Somalia, as military leaders announced an airstrike and special forces raid that are presumed to have killed two major militant leaders. News of the two operations coincided with another brutal terror attack in the capital of Mogadishu, where al-Shabaab gunmen killed at least 10 people […]

At least 10 people have been killed in Mogadishu after a suspected al-Shabaab militant crashed his vehicle into a gate outside a hotel frequented by diplomats and gunmen stormed the building. The al-Qaida-affiliated militant group quickly claimed responsibility for the attack on the Hotel Ambassador in the Somali capital. A Mogadishu police officer, Col Ali […]

Al Shabaab insurgents killed 15 Somali soldiers and retook a town northeast of the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, just one day after it had fallen to government forces, the military said. The Islamist group, which wants to topple Somalia’s Western-backed government, said it had killed 32 soldiers in the assault. It was not possible to […]

Latest reports from Pentagon claim that the U.S. carried out two successful airstrikes in Somalia on Monday and Tuesday this week, killing at least 12 Al-Shabaab militants. Speaking to journalists in Washington on Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis confirmed the report saying the US government acted in “self-defense” following an “imminent threat” against American troops […]

More than 150 al-Shabaab fighters were killed as they stood in formation at a graduation ceremony, a U.S. official said Monday. The strike, which used manned and unmanned aircraft, targeted a terrorist training camp in Raso, Somalia. Raso is located 120 miles north of the capital city of Mogadishu. The airstrike was done in “self-defense,” […]

This will certainly have to be a collaborative effort if the FBI wants to stop the recruitment of American teens.

Federal authorities are closely monitoring the investigation into an explosion aboard a Daallo Airlines flight over Somalia and are looking at Somali Al Qaeda affiliate Al Shabaab as a leading suspect.

Operation Linda Nchi, an ongoing coordinated military operation between the Kenyan military and the Somalian military, is the official reason why the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) are in Somalia, but is there another agenda?

In this week’s SOFREP News Roundup, the Air Force loses its traveling song-and-dance troupe, Army researchers are looking for guinea pigs to eat nothing but MRIs for weeks, Marines won’t get robotic dogs and can’t smoke in Hawaii, and Afghanistan is, predictably, as bad as it ever was.

Here in Somalia, being in the police force must be one of the hardest jobs given the very complex environment in which they must operate. Even your fellow police officers might sell you out because al-Shabaab pays more.