Mixed reaction to Shabaab sentences

Minneapolis - Two women convicted of conspiring to send money to al-Shabab in Somalia were given prison sentences in federal court Thursday, ending a week of punishments tied to long-running investigations into recruiting and financing for the ...

The Somali National Army killed 13 al-Shabaab militants Tuesday (May 14th), rebuffing an al-Shabaab attack on the outskirts of Farwaley and Ara As in the Gedo region, UN-funded Radio Bar-Kulan reported. The clashes erupted after al-Shabaab fighters ...

Minneapolis - Two men who left Minnesota to join the terrorist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia were sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday, getting reduced sentences for their co-operation with the US government's investigation into what has been ...

MINNEAPOLIS, May 15 (UPI) -- Prosecutors said Omer Abdi Mohamed was accused of organizing small groups of young Somali men to return to their homeland to take up arms for the Islamist terror group al-Shabaab, the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press ...

Four men have been given prison sentences in the US state of Minnesota in connection with the recruitment of fighters for a Somali militant group. Abdifatah Isse, Salah Ahmed and Ahmed Mahamud were jailed for three years by a federal judge after ...

Al-Shabaab is targeting government officials, AMISOM peacekeepers, Turkish and now Qatari nationals in suicide attacks. On 5 May 2013, at KM4 junction near Mogadishu's airport, a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (IED) targeted a government ...

TWO people including a police officer were Saturday evening killed and four others seriously Injured in a suspected al Shabaab militia attack in the border town of Mandera. The attackeers, who according to eye witnesses wore Kenya police reservists ...

US Envoy to Somalia on Security, Stability, Al-Shabaab Asharq Al-Awsat speaks to Ambassador James Swan, a veteran diplomat and US representative for Somalia Ambassador James C. Swan, the US Special Representative for Somalia, in London on May 7, ...

The Somali and Kenyan youth have been cautioned against being recruited to the al Shabbab terror group through the social media. Speaking at a social media forum that brought together Kenya and Somali youth at Laico Regency Hotel in Nairobi ...