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Ahmed Abdi Godane ( Somali: Axmed Cabdi Godane; Arabic: أحمد عبدي جودان; 10 July 1977 – 1 September 2014), also known as Mukhtar Abu Zubair, was the Emir (leader) of Al-Shabaab, an Islamist Terrorist group based in Somalia. Godane, who received training and fought in Afghanistan, was designated by the United States as a terrorist ...
Al-Shabaab (militant group) Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen ( Arabic: حركة الشباب المجاهدين, romanized : Ḥarakat ash-Shabāb al-Mujāhidīn ), commonly known as al-Shabaab, [note 2] is a Sunni Islamist military and political organization based in Somalia and active elsewhere in East Africa.
January 21: Bilal el-Berjawi, a British national and alleged Al-Qaida member and Al-Shabaab trainer, is killed in a U.S. drone attack. The car he was traveling in was struck by three missiles on the outskirts of Mogadishu. February 9: Al-Shabaab's leader, Mukhtar Abu al-Zubair, announces that the group would be joining al-Qaeda.
U.S. forces over the weekend conducted an airstrike in Somalia that killed a top leader of the al-Shabaab extremist group, the Pentagon said Monday. In coordination with the Somali government, U.S ...
Somali and U.S. forces have killed a senior leader of the militant Islamist al Shabaab group who had planned numerous attacks in Somalia and Kenya, Somalia's information minister said. "Maalim ...
Al-Shabaab claimed a moral obligation to reveal Hammami's "obstinacy". On 9 May 2013, senior member of al Shabaab and militant Fuad Mohamed Shangole claimed that Abu Mansoor al Amriki had been killed by armed men loyal to the top al Shabaab leader Ahmed Godane in Rama-cadey area.
Ghani was reportedly killed in al-Baate, southern Somalia, in September 2013 following an internal feud within the organisation. Ghani and American jihadist Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki were shot dead by Al-Shabaab fighters who had been tracking down and killing allies and supporters of Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys , who split from Al-Shabaab in June 2013.
In a press release by Al-Shabaab hours after the attack, the militant group claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming to have killed at least 137 soldiers in the attack. Ugandan government officials denied those claims, stating that out of 221 soldiers stationed in the base, 54 were killed in the attack, claiming that Al-Shabaab's ...