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Al-Shabaab militants ambush and kill two South West State soldiers who were travelling on motorcycles on the highway between Wanlaweyn and Afgooye in Lower Shabelle, Somalia.
2024-11-12

Two civilians are killed after a suicide bombing occurs at a Turkish military installation in Mogadishu, Turkey's largest overseas military base. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility.
2020-06-23

Al Shabaab claims they killed over 57 Ethiopian troops in an ambush in Somalia. Ethiopian troops rejects that claim.
2019-01-18

The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) says that a U.S. airstrike has killed around 60 al-Shabaab militants near Harardhere in central Somalia.
2018-10-16

Twenty-eight people are killed in a coordinated attack on the Dayah Hotel in central Mogadishu. The terrorist group Al-Shabaab claims responsibility.
2017-01-25

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

U.S. special forces, landing in two helicopters, stage an overnight raid on the al-Shabaab-controlled town of Awdhegele in Somalia's Lower Shebelle region. Al-Shabaab spokesman, Sheik Abduasiz Abu Musab, confirmed the raid saying "The helicopters landed outside town and the ground forces entered, there was heavy fighting and they were forced to flee"."They were masked and spoke foreign languages which our fighters could not understand," Abu Musab told Reuters. "We do not know who they were but we foiled them."
2016-03-9

An al-Shabaab suicide bomber attacks a Somali military training base in Kismayu with at least 16 people dead. Another suicide bombing in Mogadishu leaves five people killed.
2015-08-22

Somalia's police and intelligence chiefs were sacked after Al-Shabaab's attack on the Presidential palace yesterday.
2014-07-9

Somali Civil War (2009–present): Kenyan Army troops advance up to 100 kilometers into Somalia to pursue Al-Shabab militants.
2011-10-16