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19 Jan 2018, 11:38 am
In President Trump’s first year in office, these U.S. forces conducted ground and air combat operations in conjunction with Iraqi government forces, Syrian opposition forces, and coalition partners against ISIS, al-Qaeda, and affiliated groups. [read post]
3 Jan 2018, 8:58 am
” A U.S. drone strike in Somalia destroyed a truck transporting explosives and killed two al-Shabab militants, according to the AP. [read post]
22 Nov 2017, 8:14 am
A U.S. airstrike in central Somalia killed over 100 al-Shabab militants on Tuesday, Reuters reported. [read post]
20 Nov 2017, 10:13 am
In a five-day period starting Nov. 9, the U.S. carried out six strikes against al-Shabab and Islamic State militants—twenty-five percent of the strikes that the U.S. conducted in Somalia this year. [read post]
16 Oct 2017, 10:12 am
Somalia’s government blamed the attacks on al-Shabab, the al-Qaeda linked extremist group. [read post]
27 Sep 2017, 12:04 pm
In September, the Justice Department indicted two Islamic State (IS) supporters and accepted a guilty plea from an al-Shabab fighter. [read post]
11 Sep 2017, 5:41 am
Federal prosecutors say 32-year-old Maalik Jones trained with and supported al-Shabab, an ultra-conservative Islamic militant group. [read post]
4 Sep 2017, 7:00 am
Since President Trump fired Jim Comey as FBI director, the FBI has received quite a bit of attention. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 12:07 pm
At the time, the strike appeared to go beyond the AUMF in that it targeted individuals not yet deemed to be part of Al Qaeda (the U.S. has since deemed the Shabab part of the war against al-Qaeda and therefore covered by the AUMF). [read post]
12 Jun 2017, 9:40 am
President Obama designated al-Shabab an affiliate of al-Qaeda in 2016, bringing the fight against group under the purview 2001 AUMF. [read post]
8 Jun 2017, 1:37 pm
The Post writes that a large group of al-Shabab attackers launched an unusually brutal assault that included beheadings on an army base in Somalia, with reports of those dead ranging from 20 to 80 individuals. [read post]
5 May 2017, 11:19 am
A U.S. service member was killed yesterday in an operation against al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabab in Somalia, the Washington Post reports. [read post]
20 Mar 2017, 9:04 am
So now we find that the UK government, the Guardian, the BBC and the Havas mega ad agency are cutting off YouTube according to the Christian Science Monitor: As an al-Shabab militant called for jihad inside Kenya, an ad at the base of his YouTube video urged viewers to “Book Now” for a Sandals tropical vacation. [read post]
6 Mar 2017, 1:28 pm
However, the memo’s analysis arbitrarily excludes immigrants who arrived in the U.S. and then sought to travel abroad to fight for a foreign terrorist group such as ISIS or Somalia’s Al Shabab. [read post]
3 Mar 2017, 12:21 pm
The Post tells us that the United States conducted a total of 25 airstrikes yesterday against al-Qaeda targets in Yemen with manned and unmanned aircraft, in another sign of the Trump administration’s expansion of the counterterrorism campaign there. [read post]
13 Feb 2017, 12:30 pm
However, as the centralized government retracts from these areas, non-state actors—such as the so-called Islamic State, Al-Shabab, or the Taliban—become the de facto sovereign. [read post]
3 Dec 2016, 12:00 pm
President Obama recently announced that the authorization is now going to be expanded to allow use of military action against al-Shabaab, the African terrorist group, a dangerous terrorist group to be sure, but al-Shabab did not begin until 2007. [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 5:41 am
The NYT reports:The executive branch’s stretching of the 2001 war authorization against the original Al Qaeda to cover other Islamist groups in countries far from Afghanistan — even ones, like the Shabab, that did not exist at the time — has prompted recurring objections from some legal and foreign policy experts.... [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 10:38 am
The report found [press release] that the refugees risk getting injured, killed or forcibly recruited into the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab if forced to... [read post]
17 Oct 2016, 4:06 am
It describes in previously-unappreciated detail the complex nature and large scale of the U.S. military commitment to the ongoing armed conflict against al Shabab in Somalia, underscoring the extent to which the real Obama military legacy (at least vis-a-vis the blended problem of failed states and violent jihadist organizations committed to terrorism) is not the simple caricature of "drone wars" but, instead, a sophisticated hybrid model blending an array of… [read post]
