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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.
2024-06-8

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

Multiple mortars hit Mogadishu Airport, wounding at least six people. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack.
2019-10-13

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

A suicide bomber attacks a military training camp in Mogadishu, killing at least nine soldiers. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.
2017-04-10

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

An al-Shabaab suicide car bomb kills at least 20 people in the town of Galkayo in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region.
2016-08-21

Five Kenyan police officers are killed when Al-Shabaab militants ambush their convoy near El Wak, Kenya.
2016-06-21

A U.S. drone strike reportedly kills a key Al-Shabaab leader, Hassan Ali Dhoore, and two other militants, near the town of Jilib, Somalia, according to several U.S. officials.
2016-04-1

Al-Shabaab militants hijack a bus travelling between the town of Mandera and the Kenyan capital Nairobi and execute 28 non-Muslim passengers.
2014-11-22