MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) in Somalia has announced that it apprehended a senior al-Shabaab operative responsible for procuring weaponry and explosives from foreign sources. The spy agency said Sakaria Kamal, better known as Saki, is responsible for procuring weaponry “solely to arm the...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Several security personnel were injured when double car bombings hit Somalia’s central town of Dhusamareb, an official said. Ibrahim Gedi, a security officer in the town of Adado in the central state of Galmudug, told the media over the phone that one car exploded on the airport road while the second […]...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least 70 al-Shabaab men were killed Sunday in a military operation conducted by the Somali National Army backed by local militias in north-central Mudug province. The joint force raided al-Shabaab hideouts and gathering places in the town of Aad. Ringleaders of the group were among those were killed in the [&...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least 18 people, including 10 security personnel, were killed and more than 40 others wounded in a suicide bombing in central Somalia, police said late Saturday. Police spokesman Sadik Aden Ali Doodishe told Anadolu a truck full of explosives exploded at a security checkpoint in Beledwayne, killing 18 people,...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) — The UK on Tuesday announced the equivalent of $6.2 million in funding to support Somali security forces as they combat terrorism and work to restore stability in areas liberated from the al-Shabaab group. “The UK Government has announced a further £5 million in funding for the UN Support Office in Somalia [&hell...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The Somali army killed at least 30 al-Shabaab fighters during a military operation on Saturday and liberated two villages from the al-Qaeda-affiliated group with the help of locals in the central state of Galgadud, the Information Ministry said. “The National Army and the brave local people have liberated the areas of...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least two soldiers were killed while four others, including two Somali federal lawmakers, were wounded in a suicide car bomb blast at an army camp in the central state of Galmudug early Friday. The camp located in the village of Las Ga’amey was hosting senior national and regional officials, including […]...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed, including a lawmaker and a local municipality staffer, in a bomb blast in Somalia’s central state of Galmudug on Monday. The attack took place in El-Garas town, which the Somali National Army said to have liberated from al-Shabaab fighters with the help of locals. Mohamed...
BAIDOA, Somalia (AA) – At least two people were killed and as many others wounded in a suicide car bombing in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, police said. The attack took place near Mogadishu stadium that is currently housing Somali military police. Ibrahim Ali, a police officer in Mogadishu, told Anadolu over the phone that [&he...
