The Somali Al-Shabaab terrorist group confirmed on Saturday that its leader Ahmed Godane had been killed in a U.S. airstrike this week and named a new leader, Reuters reported. U.S. forces struck Godane’s encampment in south-central Somalia with Hellfire missiles and laser-guided munitions on Monday, but the Pentagon did not confirm his death until Friday. […]
When we think Islam cannot be any more sick, now Muslim parents who are promoting “martyrdom” for teens and even newborn infants by posing them with grenades, pistols, ammunition and automatic weapons in images on social media, according to a startling new report from the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). These are the future […]
U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six pulled out during a raid in Somalia to capture suspected Al-Shabaab leader Ikrima when it became clear that he couldn’t be taken alive, a senior U.S. official told CNN. “Their mission was to capture him. Once it became clear we were not going to (be) able to take him, the […]
A prize-winning British-Australian architect and his pregnant partner were shot dead side by side in the Nairobi shopping mall massacre weeks before she was due to give birth. Architect Ross Langdon and his partner, Elif Yavuz Photo: Windgrove: Life on the Edge blog/AAP DAILY TELEGRAPH By Jonathan Pearlman, Sydney 7:45AM BST 23 Sep 2013 Ross […]
Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo: George Mulala/Polaris/Newscom) Who is al-Shabaab? Al-Shabaab is an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group operating in the Horn of Africa. The group emerged in 2006 as a radical youth wing of the Islamic Courts government in Somalia. Al-Shabaab has been very successful in attracting foreign recruits to Somalia to join al-Shabaab. The […]
Kenyan security forces taking a position inside a shopping mall following an attack by masked gunmen in Nairobi. (Photo: NICHOLE SOBECKI/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom) A high-end Mall in the Westlands suburb of Nairobi was attacked by armed gunmen on Saturday afternoon. Al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda linked group based in Somalia, is claiming responsibility for the attack at the […]
