Counterterrorism
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 08:51
Kenya yesterday welcomed the latest onslaught on suspected al Shabaab militants inside Somalia.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 08:49
THERE was no coordinated security response to the Westgate attack, and as a result the destruction was probably much worse than it needed to be.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 08:47
Troops from 7 Division, Nigerian Army in Maiduguri, yesterday, launched separate preemptive attacks on Boko Haram enclaves at Ajigi, Kafa and Izza villages of Bama and Damboa council areas of the state, killing no fewer than 30 suspected members, including an Amir (leader) of the sect.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 08:32
The Defence Headquarters has denied a front page story carried by Daily Trust yesterday titled “operational blunders, poor supplies causing military losses.”
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 08:25
The US Special Forces unit that killed Osama Bin Laden failed during a predawn mission in Somalia to capture what Washington called a “high value target” suspected of links to Kenya’s Westgate terror attack.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 08:21
Kenyan intelligence knows him simply as Ikrima. But his full name is Mohamed Abdikadir Mohamed, and he is regarded as one of the most dangerous commanders in the Somali terror group Al-Shabaab.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 08:16
The top U.N. official for Somalia said more military force is needed to push Islamist militant group al-Shabab out of its remaining strongholds. Such strongholds include the town of Barawe — the scene of a U.S. Special Forces strike over the weekend.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 08:14
A United States official says the target of raid by Navy SEALs in Somalia over the weekend was a Kenyan man named Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulkadir. A Kenyan government intelligence document names him as the coordinator of other planned attacks.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 07:57
In a statement the security agency added that the three, who are Lebanese and Syrian nationals, were planning terrorist attacks.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 07:51
Since his release from an Egyptian prison in 2011, it said Jamal had set up terrorist training camps in both Egypt and Libya to train suicide bombers and established links with terrorists in Europe.