* 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 attack2024-06-8
* 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)] Somali civil war (2009–present)2024-06-8
* 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
Ten people are killed and about 20 others are injured in a quadruple bombing at a market in Mogadishu, Somalia. 2024-02-6
Five people are killed, some by decapitation, by al-Shabaab jihadists across two villages in Lamu County, Kenya. 2023-06-25
Five people are killed, some by decapitation, by al-Shabaab jihadists across two villages in Lamu County, Kenya. [https:--english.alarabiya.net-News-world-2023-06-25-Al-Shabaab-extremists-kill-five-civilians-in-Kenya-some-by-beheading-Police-source (AFP via Al Arabiya)]Terrorism in Kenya2023-06-25
The death toll from the clashes between the Somali National Army and Sufi paramilitary group Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a in Galmudug increases to 120. 2021-10-25
A suicide car bombing near the presidential palace in Mogadishu kills eight people and injures seven others. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack, saying they targeted a convoy of cars traveling to the palace. 2021-09-25
Three Somali special forces officers are killed and one U.S. officer seriously wounded when a car bomb explodes outside a special force base in an attack in the country's south, in a village some 60 km (around 40 miles) from the port city of Kismayo. Jihadist group al-Shabaab claims responsibility, saying it "killed U.S. personnel". 2020-09-7