A suicide bomber detonates his explosives at a military camp in Mogadishu where new recruits were queueing outside the camp, killing 15 people and injuring many others. This is the deadliest attack in Mogadishu since December 2019. 2021-06-15
The death toll of the attack in Mogadishu the previous day rises to 84 with over 25 others remaining missing. 2019-12-29
A car bomb kills 11 people and injures 10 others in an attack on a mall in Mogadishu, Somalia. 2019-02-4
Six U.S. air strikes over the weekend kill at least 62 Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia, according to The Pentagon. 2018-12-17
The United States launches airstrikes against Islamic State in Somalia for the first time. The United States Africa Command says "several terrorists" were killed in the strikes, which took place in coordination with Somalia's government. 2017-11-3
A vehicle filled with explosives detonates near a hotel in Mogadishu, killing at least six people and wounding four others. 2017-03-13
Fighting between militia and Al-Shabaab militants has left at least 26 people dead. 2016-11-28
A militant group affiliated with ISIL seizes the coastal town of Qandala in the autonomous Puntland region. 2016-10-26
At least five people are killed and seven are wounded following a car bomb attack near a government building in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack. 2016-04-11
Al-Shabaab claims to have killed scores of African Union troops in a successful attack that captured a compound in Janaale, south of Mogadishu. 2015-09-1