Somali security forces say they have ended the 12-hour siege of a hotel in the capital Mogadishu by killing all five of the gunmen involved. Three soldiers were killed and 27 people injured ...
Islamist militants from the Al-Shabaab group on Thursday attacked a popular hotel near the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, security sources and witnesses said. The assault ...
There was no immediate word on casualties. Attacks in the seaside capital had reduced in recent weeks amid a beefing up of security there. Al-Shabab, which opposes Somalia's federal government, is ...
Security forces also killed five assailants in a gun battle, Somali police spokesman Colonel Qasim Ahmed Roble told reporters. Armed fighters stormed the SYL hotel in a hail of bullets late on ...
Turkish and Israeli investigators are searching through twisted metal and rubble outside two synagogues destroyed by bombers, probing possible links to al Qaida in the attacks that killed 20 ...
In recent months, al Shabab attacks have become more frequent in Mandera county, where Elwak is located. Last month, a similar attack outside the Mandera police station killed at least three ...
Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network is being blamed for the synchronised suicide bombings of western compounds in the Saudi Arabian capital that killed at least ...
The U.S. Embassy in Nairobi says it has received information about threats to multiple locations in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. One of the locations identified as a possible target for the ...
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Somali army killed around 50 Al-Shabab militants, an Al Qaeda-linked group, in an airstrike in the center of the country. Somalia news agency said that the army with the support of international ...
Attacks by Yemen's Huthi rebels on Red Sea shipping pose no threat to Saudi coastal resorts, the kingdom's tourism minister told AFP Sunday at a summit focused on regional instability. "What is ...
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