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Al-Shabaab Terrorist Attack Kills 1 U.S. Soldier, 2 Contractors At Kenyan Military Base, 2 Americans Wounded

Al-Shabaab Terrorist Attack Kills 1 U.S. Soldier, 2 Contractors At Kenyan Military Base, 2 Americans Wounded

A dawn terrorist attack on a military base used by U.S. troops in Kenya has left one American soldier dead, and also killed two independent contractors working for the U.S. Department of Defense, according to a statement issued Sunday by the U.S. Africa Command. The statement was posted on Twitter by the African Strategic Intelligence […]

4y ago

Terror Group Al-Shabaab Blames Donald Trump For Kenyan Hotel Atrocity

Terror Group Al-Shabaab Blames Donald Trump For Kenyan Hotel Atrocity

Al-Shabaab, the Somali Islamist terrorist group which has admitted carrying out yesterday’s attack on a Kenyan hotel complex which left 21 people dead, including one U.S. citizen, has said they launched the attack because of President Donald Trump. According to the Daily Mail, an al-Shabaab statement said the attack was “a response to the witless […]

5y ago

Al-Shabaab Commander And Suspected U.S. Resident Captured In US-Somali Raid

Al-Shabaab Commander And Suspected U.S. Resident Captured In US-Somali Raid

In conjunction with Somali forces, U.S. armed forces captured an al-Shabaab commander, Abdirazaq Husain Tahliil alias Ina Alool Gee, in Somalia on Sunday. Although not a U.S. citizen, Tahil was a suspected legal U.S. resident from approximately 2006 to 2009. From what officials have stated, he traveled to Somalia and is accused of “facilitating the […]

7y ago

Somalia Car Bombings: Al-Shabaab Takes Credit For Suicide Attacks In Galkayo

Somalia Car Bombings: Al-Shabaab Takes Credit For Suicide Attacks In Galkayo

Suicide car bombings in Somalia claimed the lives of more than 20 people. The bombers are from Al-Shabaab, which is an al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group that operates in Somalia. Two car bombs were detonated near local government headquarters. Eyewitnesses in Galkayo in north central Somalia said they heard the explosions, which was followed by gunfire. A […]

8y ago

Gunmen Attack Mogadishu Hotel Leaving At Least 15 Dead

Gunmen Attack Mogadishu Hotel Leaving At Least 15 Dead

Gunmen attacked a Mogadishu hotel on Saturday, taking guests hostage and shooting at everyone randomly before security forces killed the assailants on the top floor and ended the hours-long assault. Massive blasts and heavy gunfire rocked the Naso Hablod hotel in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, as gunmen fought their way inside, leaving dozens dead and injured, […]

8y ago

Kenya Closing All Its Refugee Camps, Displacing More Than 600,000

Kenya Closing All Its Refugee Camps, Displacing More Than 600,000

The Kenyan government said on Friday that it is working to close the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps, forcibly displacing more than 600,000 refugees. Kenya cited the heavy economic and environmental costs of continuing to host refugees as the rationale, as well as security concerns over Islamist terrorist groups like Al-Shabaab. Built 20 years ago, […]

8y ago

Australian Navy Intercepts Fishing Boat Carrying 2,000 Guns And Ammunition To Somalia – Vessel A Part Of Major Illegal Arms Trade?

Australian Navy Intercepts Fishing Boat Carrying 2,000 Guns And Ammunition To Somalia – Vessel A Part Of Major Illegal Arms Trade?

A huge cache of 2,000 guns was found on a fishing boat by the Australian Navy. It is believed the Somalia-bound dinghy could be part of major illegal arms trade, meant to supply arms to the war-torn country. A fishing boat ferrying more than 2,000 weapons, hidden under fishing nets, was intercepted by Australian Navy. […]

8y ago

Airport Workers Spotted With Laptop Used In Somalia Mid-Air Explosion

Airport Workers Spotted With Laptop Used In Somalia Mid-Air Explosion

Somali intelligence officials say two airport workers handled a laptop that concealed a bomb that later exploded in a passenger plane. Officials released a video to the public on Sunday, where one airport worker is seen handing the laptop to another employee. The employees then handed the laptop over to the man who was killed […]

8y ago

In Jihadist Video, Islamists Tout Trump Remark As ‘Recruitment Tool’ To Pit U.S. Pundits Against Each Other

In Jihadist Video, Islamists Tout Trump Remark As ‘Recruitment Tool’ To Pit U.S. Pundits Against Each Other

In a jihadist video released by the Somali-based al-Shabaab on New Year’s Day, January 1, 2016, is a clip of G.O.P. presidential frontrunner Donald Trump calling for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States. Trump’s reaction to the massacre of 14 people and the wounding of 21 others in San Bernardino, California, by […]

8y ago

Vetting System No Match For Taqiyya As Terrorist Penetrates U.S. To Kill 14 And Wound 21

Vetting System No Match For Taqiyya As Terrorist Penetrates U.S. To Kill 14 And Wound 21

The much-touted “rigorous” vetting system in the United States allowed a Pakistani female jihadist to enter the country in July, 2014, and participate in a bloodletting on December 2, 2015, that took away the lives of 14 Americans while injuring 21 others. U.S. President Barack Obama jumped on the chance to blame faulty gun-control, skirting […]

9y ago

Kenya Attack By al-Qaeda Terrorists Feared During Pope Francis’ Africa Tour

Kenya Attack By al-Qaeda Terrorists Feared During Pope Francis’ Africa Tour

Kenyan authorities are concerned that terrorists like the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab may launch another Kenya attack during Pope Francis’ Africa tour. After the devastating Paris attacks, Kenya’s Defense Forces (KDF) are stepping up their security measures in order to prepare for the Catholic leader’s visit. In a related report by the Inquisitr, some have compared the […]

9y ago

Kenya: Terrorist Attack In Paris A Reminder Of 500 Kenyans Killed By al Qaeda, Says President Uhuru Kenyatta

Kenya: Terrorist Attack In Paris A Reminder Of 500 Kenyans Killed By al Qaeda, Says President Uhuru Kenyatta

In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks by ISIS, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta says the Kenya attacks by al Qaeda-linked groups serve as an example of how nations should respond to groups like DAESH and al Qaeda. Kenya’s terrorist attacks have left at least 500 people dead over the last three years, and Kenyatta […]

9y ago

UN Soldiers Killed: Somalia Says Al-Qaida-Linked Al-Shabaab Killed 50 United Nations Troops

UN Soldiers Killed: Somalia Says Al-Qaida-Linked Al-Shabaab Killed 50 United Nations Troops

After the militant group al-Shabaab had UN soldiers killed, Somalia’s ambassador in the United Nations, Nicholas Kay, strongly condemned the attack which killed 50 African Union troops. In a related report by the Inquisitr, an ISIS execution video was released recently, and it supposedly showed the worst execution film ever. According to the Express Tribune, […]

9y ago

At Least 10 Persons Reported Dead, More Expected, After Suicide Blast Rocks Mogadishu Hotel

At Least 10 Persons Reported Dead, More Expected, After Suicide Blast Rocks Mogadishu Hotel

At least 10 persons were reportedly killed after a suicide blast rocked a Mogadishu hotel frequented by foreign diplomats. More deaths are expected. According to a BBC News correspondent in the Somalian city, a truck carrying explosives drove into the the Mogadishu Jazeera Hotel Sunday near the city’s airport. According to the correspondent, ambulances have […]

9y ago

Samantha Lewthwaite: Mom Of Four, Killer Of 400 — Spy Chiefs Claim Woman Is Terrorist Mastermind

Samantha Lewthwaite: Mom Of Four, Killer Of 400 — Spy Chiefs Claim Woman Is Terrorist Mastermind

Samantha Lewthwaite is the 32-year-old mother of four children who grew up mainly in Aylesbury, England, the daughter of a British Army soldier. But somewhere along the line in Samantha’s young life, something went wrong — very wrong. Now, according to intelligence officials who spoke to the Daily Mirror newspaper for a report published May […]

9y ago

Nairobi University Students Stampede After False Terror Attack, One Killed

Nairobi University Students Stampede After False Terror Attack, One Killed

It was only an explosion from a nearby power transformer, but that was all it took to send jittery residents at Nairobi University into a panic. Just 10 days ago, the Islamist terrorist group Al-Shabaab attacked Kenya’s Garissa University College and killed 148 students. Al-Shabaab is a Somali terrorist group that has pledged itself to […]

9y ago

Death Toll In Kenya College Attack Rises To 147, Terrorists Reportedly Made Sure They Killed Non-Muslims

Death Toll In Kenya College Attack Rises To 147, Terrorists Reportedly Made Sure They Killed Non-Muslims

The death toll in the grisly terrorist attack at the sprawling campus of the Garissa University College in Kenya early Thursday has risen to 147, reports CNN. According to the report, Kenyan security forces have also managed to kill four terrorists who had gunned down many of the students on the campus and held several […]

9y ago

Mall Of America Increases Security Amid Terrorist Threat

Mall Of America Increases Security Amid Terrorist Threat

The Mall of America has increased security measures amid a suspected terrorist threat. Officials with the Department of Homeland Security said the threat was outlined in a video, which was reportedly produced by the al-Shabaab militant group. In 2013, al-Shabaab orchestrated an attack on a Kenya’s Westgate shopping mall. The brutal assault injured 175 and […]

9y ago

Al-Shabaab Leader Targeted In U.S. Special Operations Air Strike In Somalia

Al-Shabaab Leader Targeted In U.S. Special Operations Air Strike In Somalia

Al-Shabaab leader Yusuf Dheeq was the target of a U.S. attack in Somalia over the weekend, and while the Pentagon initially announced that it could not confirm if he was killed, other sources said he was. Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby told reporters on February 3 that U.S. special operations targeted Dheeq, a […]

9y ago

Kenyan Bus Attack: Al-Shabaab Terrorists Shoot And Behead 36 Non-Muslims At Mandera Quarry

Kenyan Bus Attack: Al-Shabaab Terrorists Shoot And Behead 36 Non-Muslims At Mandera Quarry

When it comes to global terrorism, most people — as well as the media — are concentrating primarily on the Middle East, especially with the increased activity of the Islamic State and its affiliations (ISIS and ISIL). However, other countries are experiencing a rise in terrorist activity as well. One such example is the African […]

10y ago

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