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Two Kenyan guards and a Somali policeman are killed during a shooting attack by al-Shabaab gunmen at Mogadishu International Airport. Two of the attackers are also killed. Several more people are wounded. All domestic and international flights at the airport are suspended.
2022-03-23

Four Burundian soldiers are killed as their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Burane, Somalia. Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack.
2021-12-12

Two car bombings near the presidential palace in Mogadishu, Somalia, kill at least 38 people. Al-Shabaab claim responsibility for the attacks.
2018-02-24

Stephen O'Brien, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, reports that the world is experiencing its most severe humanitarian crisis since World War II, with over 20 million people suffering from severe lack of food security in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, and Northeast Nigeria.
2017-03-10

In a raid by Somali forces near Kismayo, at least 16 Al-Shabaab militants are killed, including the mastermind of the Garissa University College attack.
2016-06-2

Islamists from al-Shabab kill a member of the parliament Abdullahi Qayad Barre in the capital city of Mogadishu, Somalia.
2015-02-9

Kenyan Air Force planes attack the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab killing 80 of its fighters according to the African Union force in Somalia.
2014-06-23

The Hizbul Islam group in Somalia join forces with al-Shabaab.
2010-12-24

The African Union says its forces have captured 40% of the Somali capital Mogadishu from Islamist militants in a recent offensive.
2010-10-7

al-Shabaab seizes three towns from Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a in central Galguduud, Somalia.
2010-04-24