Terror Watch

Car bomb attack hits security checkpoint near the Somali parliament

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A car bomb blast believed to be suicide attack targeted a security checkpoint near the government's highly guarded areas killing several, local media reported.

Somalia's Al-Shabab attack a US base in Kenya in dawn raid

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somali militant group Al-Shabab said on Sunday morning that its fighters attacked an American base in Lamu county in Kenya.

US airstrike kills 3 militants in Somalia

MOGADISHU, Somalia - US Africa command on Friday said that 3 militants, who engaged Somali National Army partner forces on patrol near Bacaw, Somalia, were killed in an airstrike on January 3, US Africa command said in a statement.

Ethiopia deploys new spies to Somali region amid fears of terror attack

JIGJIGA, Ethiopia, (HORN OBSERVER) - The Ethiopian Federal Intelligence Service says it has trained 532 Special Forces to fight terrorism in the Somali State amid fears of possible terror attacks.

At least 4 killed in Kenyan bus attack claimed by the Somali militants

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somali militant group Al-Shabab claimed four Kenyan passenger buses at Nyongoro on the Mombasa- Lamu Highway in the Lamu region, the latest attack by the militants in the Kenyan soul.

Somali forces kill 20 militants, take over 7 villages in a deadly gunfight

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia's especially trained commando force DANAB killed at least 20 militants and liberated 7 villages from the Somali militants, local media reported.

Al-Shabab takes credit for the Saturday's deadly attack in Somalia's capital

MOGADISHU, Somalia (Horn Observer) Spokesperson for the Somali militant group Al-Shabab, Ali Mohamoud Raage said on in a prerecorded audio message that his group was responsible for the Saturday's attack that killed at least 100 people, majority of them civilians and university students.

Somalia: 3 convicted al-Shabaab inmates escape high security prison in Mogadishu

MOGADISHU, Somalia (Horn Observer) Residents of Somali capital were on Monday shocked to hear that three convicted high profile al-Shabaab inmates escaped Mogadishu Central Prison two days after suspected militants detonated a truck bomb killing more than 80 in Mogadishu.

US airstrikes destroy 2 militant vehicles and kill 2 Shabab operatives in Somalia

MOGADISHU, Somalia (Horn Observer) Two militant vehicles were destroyed and two Shabab operatives were killed in three US airstrikes in Somalia on Sunday, a day after suspected militant attack killed more than 100 people and wounded dozens in Somalia's capital, US Africa command said in a statement.

Deal with security lapses and accept failure, opposition leaders tell Villa Somalia

MOGADISHU, Somalia (HORN OBSERVER) Top opposition leaders under the opposition umbrella, Forum for National Parties (FNP), have called on the Somali government to come up with a security plan to deal with the recurrent militant attacks in the capital and accept its failure to protect the citizens from…

Somalia truck bomb: Hospital receives 73 bodies, 90+ injured

MOGADISHU, Somalia (HORN OBSERVER) The management of Madina Hospital in Somalia capital says the hospital received 73 bodies after a truck bomb targeted a police checkpoint at Ex-Control on the main Mogadishu-Afgoye road on Saturday.

Deadly car bomb attack in Somalia's capital kills 26 and wounds 60

MOGADISHU, Somalia: At least 26 people mainly civilians were killed and 60 others wounded when a suicide car bomb attacked a security checkpoint along the ex-control Afgooye, witnesses and officials said, in what many believe was the deadliest attack in this ending year.

Somalia: Shabab convicts appear before military tribunal in Mogadishu

Mogadishu (Horn Observer) Three men and a woman charged with terror activities appeared before Somali Military court on Thursday, officials said.

US airstrike kills a militant in Southern Somalia

MOGADISHU (Horn Observer) US troops in Somalia in coordination with the Somali National army on Monday conducted an airstrike targeting an al-Shabaab terrorist in the vicinity of Dujuuma, Somalia, Dec. 16, Statement from US Africa command said.

A Shabab convict sentenced to serve 10 years in Military prison

MOGADISHU (Horn Observer) A Military court in Mogadishu handed down a Shabab convict Ahmed Ali Aybakar, who was accused of besides his membership to the group for renting homes for the Shabab fighters and representing the group in the major hospital in Mogadishu, 10 years in military prison, officials…