Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP | At least five people were killed and ten wounded in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Sunday when a car bomb detonated on a busy road, the security ministry said. There was no immediate claim of responsiblity but the bombing fits the pattern of Al-Qaeda linked Shabaab …
Read More »Bomb blast kills eight on Kenya-Somalia border
Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Eight people, including four children returning to school after Eid celebrations, were killed Tuesday by a roadside bomb in eastern Kenya near the border with Somalia, police said. “We have eight victims — four children and four police,” a police spokesman told AFP following the explosion …
Read More »At least 10 killed in Mogadishu minibus attack
Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP | At least 10 people were killed when Shabaab Islamists drove an explosives-laden minibus into local government offices in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, according to the security ministry. The minibus was rammed through a security barrier outside offices in the southern district of Wadajir, …
Read More »Three police officers killed in northern Kenya bomb attack
Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Three Kenyan police officers were killed on Wednesday morning when their vehicle hit a homemade bomb on a road near the Somali border in the northeast of the country. The vehicle was driving towards the regional town of Garissa when it struck the device close …
Read More »Three Somali soldiers killed defusing bomb
Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP | At least three members of the Somali security forces were killed Wednesday as they tried to defuse a bomb inside a vehicle in the capital Mogadishu, police said. “The vehicle was seized and the security forces were trying to defuse the bomb inside when it …
Read More »Four killed in Kenyan car bomb attack
Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | At least four people died on Tuesday when their vehicle set off an improvised explosive device in a small Kenyan town near the border with Somalia, police said. The blast was the second in two days to hit border towns after suspected Shabaab militants attacked …
Read More »Security forces deny access to site of US blast in Afghanistan
Jalalabad, Afghanistan | AFP | Security forceswere still blocking accessWednesday to the site in eastern Afghanistan where the US dropped a massive bomb on an Islamic State group stronghold six days ago. The US military dropped its GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, dubbed the “Mother of All Bombs”, in combat …
Read More »VIDEO: How the US dropped ‘Mother Of All Bombs’ in Afghanistan
Washington, United States | AFP | The US military on Thursday dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb ever deployed in combat, targeting an Islamic State complex in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb — better known by its nickname, the “Mother Of All Bombs” — hit …
Read More »#BREAKING: Trump’s US drops biggest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan
US drops ‘Mother Of All Bombs’ in Afghanistan Washington, United States | AFP | The US military on Thursday dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb ever deployed in combat, targeting an Islamic State complex in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb hit a “tunnel complex” …
Read More »28 killed in Shabaab attack on Mogadishu hotel
Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP | Twenty-eight people were killed Wednesday when Al-Shabaab fighters attacked a popular Mogadishu hotel, setting off two car bombs and opening fire on security guards, according to the city’s main ambulance service. The attack, claimed by the Al-Qaeda-aligned Shabaab insurgents, began when a car loaded with …
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