Al Shabab Somalia

Somalia: Warring Parties Put Children At Grave Risk

Human Rights Watch | Posted 04.21.2012

Human Rights Watch

Since Somalia's conflict intensified in 2010 and 2011, al-Shabaab has increasingly forced children, some as young as 10, to join its dwindling ranks.

Al Shabaab Militants Detonate Truck Bomb At Ethiopian Base

AP | By ABDI GULED | Posted 03.25.2012

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A truck bomb targeted an Ethiopian military base inside Somalia on Tuesday, and Islamist militants claimed responsibility for th...

Truck Bomb Blast Kills Dozens

AP | By ABDI GULED | Posted 12.04.2011

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Islamist militants detonated a truck bomb Tuesday in front of the education ministry in Somalia's capital as students and parent...

Al-Shabab, Somali Islamist Group, Confirms It Has Joined With Al Qaeda

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

Somali Islamist rebel group al-Shabab has confirmed for the first time that its fighters are aligned with al-Qaeda's global militant campaign....

Somali Islamist Insurgents Behead 7 People

AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 05.25.2011

NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali Islamist fighters on Friday beheaded seven prisoners accused of abandoning the Muslim faith and spying for the governmen...