Tag: Somalia

National Security

White House worried about threat from Americans fighting for ISIS

Charles Hoskinson · September 4, 2014 9:00 am

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2008 file photo, armed al-shabab fighters on pickup trucks prepare to travel into the city, just outside Mogadishu, in Somalia. U.S. military forces targeted the Islamic extremist al-Shabab network in an operation Monday, Sept. 1, 2014 in Somalia, the Pentagon said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

National Security

Somali government offers amnesty to extremists

Abdi Guled · September 3, 2014 2:55 pm

Pentagon press secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon on Tuesday. (AP/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Officials can’t confirm whether U.S. killed al-Shabab leader in Somalia airstrikes

Charles Hoskinson · September 3, 2014 1:57 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2008 file photo, armed al-shabab fighters on pickup trucks prepare to travel into the city, just outside Mogadishu, in Somalia. U.S. military forces targeted the Islamic extremist al-Shabab network in an operation Monday, Sept. 1, 2014 in Somalia, the Pentagon said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

National Security

US strike targets leader of Somali extremist group

Abdi Guled · September 2, 2014 8:03 pm

In this photo provided by the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM), African Union (AU) soldiers from Uganda fire at al-Shabab positions in their stronghold of Bulomarer in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. Somali government troops fighting alongside AU troops drove the militants from the town as part of their military offensive dubbed "Indian Ocean" aiming to oust al-Shabab from its last major hideouts in the southern parts of the Horn of Africa nation. (AP Photo/AMISOM, Tobin Jones)

Somali troops oust militants from southern town

Abdi Guled · August 30, 2014 7:14 pm

In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 4, 2014, a technician from Access TV, a new Somali satellite television company offering world news, local news and sports, adjusts the signal on a satellite dish at the company's headquarters in Mogadishu, Somalia. The TV business is booming in Somalia, in part because of fears by people of gathering in public places like movie theaters, hotels and restaurants that are targeted for deadly attacks by the al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somalia TV sales grow as many avoid public places

Abdi Guled · August 19, 2014 6:28 pm

Somalis push a wounded civilian on a stretcher into a hospital following clashes between Somali troops and militiamen loyal to a Somali warlord in Mogadishu, Somalia Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. The sounds of warfare rattled Mogadishu residents from their beds early Friday as government troops launched a dawn attack on a house belonging to a former warlord as part of a disarmament campaign. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

7 dead as battle erupts in Somali capital

Abdi Guled · August 15, 2014 3:30 pm

In this photo taken Sunday, July 27, 2014, African Union (AU) peacekeepers stand near a cache of weapons recovered from a garage in Mogadishu, Somalia. An official says that Somalia's government has launched a new disarmament campaign, that has netted some 500 guns during four raids, which is being carried out because officials fear that weapons could fall into the hands of al-Qaeda-linked fighters. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

500 guns seized: Somalia tries to disarm Mogadishu

Abdi Guled · August 14, 2014 4:09 pm

Somalis find new option on airwaves: sports radio

Abdi Guled · August 3, 2014 2:56 pm

Ebola fears nix Sierra Leone troop trip to Somalia

Washington Examiner · August 1, 2014 12:26 pm

In this photo taken Monday, Dec. 2, 2013, Saado Ali Warsame, a Somali member of parliament is seen during a parliament session to endorse Somali prime minister in Mogadishu, Somalia. Gunmen killed a Somali lawmaker, Wednesday, July 23, 2014, in a drive-by shooting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a police official said. Lawmaker Saado Ali Warsame, who also was a popular singer of Somali folk music, was shot dead by gunmen who pulled up near her car as she was being driven to a hotel, said Somali police Capt. Mohamed Hussein. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somali lawmaker shot dead in drive-by shooting

Abdi Guled · July 23, 2014 2:15 pm

Somali soldiers patrol near the wreckage of a car bomb that was detonated at the main gate of the presidential palace in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, July, 9, 2014. Somali troops retook the presidential palace in the capital of Mogadishu after militants forced their way in and exchanged heavy gunfire with troops and guards Tuesday, the latest attack underscoring the threat posed by Islamic extremist group al-Shabab in east Africa. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somali leader fires police, intelligence chiefs

Abdi Guled · July 9, 2014 12:36 pm