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* Al-Shabaab attacked four military bases and overran the town of Dherka Derka for several hours, killing many soldiers of the Somali National Army. The militants were eventually defeated by a U.S.-assisted airstrike.[https:--www.voasomali.com-a-wararkii-ugu-dambeeyay-ee-magaalada-ceeldheer--7648745.html (Voa Somali)] 2024 El Dher attack
2024-06-8

A U.S. airstrike kills an employee of the telecoms Hormuud Telecom. It was aimed at Al-Shabaab in Jilib, Middle Juba.
2020-02-25

An al-Shabaab car bombing kills four people and injures at least 20 others near Afgooye, Lower Shabelle, Somalia.
2020-01-18

An al-Shabaab car bombing kills four people and injures at least 20 others near Afgooye, Lower Shabelle, Somalia. [http:--english.alarabiya.net-en-News-world-2020-01-18-Car-bomb-targeting-Turkish-contractors-explodes-in-Somali-town.html (Al Arabiya)]2020 Afgooye bombing
2020-01-18

A Maltese port manager is killed at a fish market in Puntland by Al-Shabaab militants disguised as fishermen.
2019-02-4

A U.S. special forces soldier is killed and four others are wounded in an ambush by suspected al-Shabaab militants near the town of Jamame, Lower Juba, Somalia.
2018-06-8

A car bomb blast in Mogadishu, near the Weheliye hotel in the Somali capital, kills at least 14 people and injures 10 others. Al-Shabab claims responsibility for the blast.
2018-03-22

The United States is to deploy troops to Somalia for the first time since 1994 to help train the Somali Armed Forces in their conflict with al-Shabaab insurgents.
2017-04-14

Al-Shabaab militants attack a remote AMISOM base in southern Somalia, claiming to have killed dozens of Kenyan troops.
2017-01-27

A militant from Al-Shabaab shoots dead an intelligence officer in Mogadishu.
2016-10-25