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Bookmark or Share- Inside the Decade-Long U.S. Fight Against Al Shabab in Somalia - The ...The hunt for an elusive Somali militant illustrates why Al Shabab, despite a decade of American covert action, are at their strongest in years. A ruined tank left over from Somalia’s civil war ...
- 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.
- Conflict With Al-Shabaab in Somalia | Global Conflict TrackerLearn about al-Shabab, the al-Qaeda affiliate with continued influence in Somalia, and track the latest developments in the country using CFR’s Global Conflict Tracker.
- Background Briefing: What is al-Shabab? | PBS NewsHourAl-Shabab, or “the Youth,” is an al-Qaida-linked militant group and U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization fighting for the creation of a fundamentalist Islamic state in Somalia.
- Al-Shabaab (militant group) - WikipediaHarakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, commonly known as al-Shabaab, [note 2] 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.
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