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Bookmark or Share- Al-Shabaab (militant group) - WikipediaHarakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, commonly known as al-Shabaab, is a Sunni Islamist military and political organization based in Somalia and active elsewhere in East Africa. It is actively involved in the ongoing Somali Civil War and incorporates elements of Somali nationalism into its Islamist cause.
- Somalia's Syl hotel attacked by al-Shabab fighters in Mogadishu - BBC15 March 2024. By George Wright & Ian Wafula,BBC News, London & Nairobi. AFP via Getty Images. The Syl Hotel was also attacked in 2019 (file photo) Somali security forces say they have ended the...
- National Counterterrorism Center | Groups - DNIAl-Shabaab is responsible for the assassination of Somali peace activists, international aid workers, numerous civil society figures, and journalists, and for blocking the delivery of aid from some Western relief agencies during the 2011 famine that killed tens of thousands of Somalis.
- Al-Shabaab | Somali Militant Group, Terrorism & InsurgencyAl-Shabaab, Somali-based Islamist militant group with links to al-Qaeda. Beginning in 2006, the group waged an insurgency against Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG). Al-Shabaab originated as a militia affiliated with the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), a federation of local and clan-based.
- Examining Extremism: Harakat al Shabaab al Mujahideen (al Shabaab) - CSISPublished September 23, 2021. The resumption of U.S. airstrikes in Somalia in July 2021 after a six-month pause under the Biden administration is renewing focus on Harakat al Shabaab al Mujahideen, al Qaeda’s affiliate in East Africa more commonly known as al Shabaab.
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