Terrorism
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 13:07
Al-Shabab, the Somali group that has claimed responsibility for the began as a group fighting inside its homeland. But it has evolved into an al-Qaida affiliate that draws members from other countries and views Somalia as a front in the war against the West.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 13:06
Marginalized in Somalia by Kenyan, Ethiopian and other African military forces, al-Shabab tried to show that it was still a potent instrument of terror by striking cruelly in Nairobi. Since Kenyans had helped significantly to overcome al-Shabab’s strongholds in Kismayu and Merca, in southern Somalia, al-Shabab attacked Nairobi, Kenya’s soft security underbelly, instead of attempting to battle Kenya’s 4,000-strong soldiers in Somalia itself.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 13:04
A carefully choreographed assault on Kenya’s most upscale shopping mall was described by U.S. counterterrorism officials Monday as evidence that the militant group al-Shabab has turned its energies toward regional attacks after losing power and territory in its home base of Somalia.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 12:56
Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes on the recent attack in Kenya.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 12:35
Barack Obama offered security support to Kenya on Monday, as authorities in Washington investigated reports that American citizens may have been involved in the terrorist attack on a shopping mall that killed at least 62 people.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 12:21
Kenyan forces are securing the Nairobi shopping centre attacked by suspected al-Shabab militants, as the stand-off enters its fourth day.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 12:13
One of the Islamist militants who stormed an upscale shopping mall here on Saturday wore a white turban, witnesses said, while others wore black head scarves. Most were in civilian clothes, but a few donned camouflage fatigues. Some carried sophisticated machine guns, and others wielded the AK-47 rifles widely used by African insurgents. Most of the extremists who seized the mall were young and barked orders in English.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 12:03
Claiming to have “ashamed and defeated our attackers,” President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya on Tuesday declared victory over the Islamists militants who stormed into a crowded Nairobi shopping mall and killed dozens of civilians.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 11:46
WITNESSES are still insisting that a woman was involved in the attacks in Westgate mall despite a government statement that all the attackers were male.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 09:46
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on Monday expressed shock and horror at the terrorist attack on a shopping mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, that has attracted worldwide condemnation.