Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen [note 1], commonly known as al-Shabaab, [note 2] is a transnational Salafi Jihadist [33][34] military and political organization based in Somalia and active elsewhere in East Africa. It is actively involved in the ongoing Somali Civil …

Jan 17, 2025 · al-Shabaab, Somali-based Islamist militant group with links to al-Qaeda. Beginning in 2006, the group waged an insurgency against Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG).

Al-Shabaab is a Sunni Islamic terrorist group that publicly pledged loyalty to al-Qa‘ida in 2012. The group works to overthrow the Somali Federal Government, expel foreign forces from Somalia, and establish a fundamentalist Islamic state.

Dec 6, 2022 · Al-Shabaab, or “the Youth,” is an Islamist insurgent group based in Somalia. It held sway over the capital of Mogadishu in the late 2000s, but a military campaign led by the African Union...

Oct 15, 2024 · On July 11, 2010, al-Shabaab launched its first foreign attack in Kampala, Uganda, killing seventy-six people in a series of suicide bombings. The terrorist group reached its peak in 2011 when...

Al-Shabaab is responsible for the assassination of Somali peace activists, international aid workers, numerous civil society figures, and journalists, and for blocking the delivery of aid from some Western relief agencies during the 2011 famine that killed tens of thousands of Somalis.

Dec 22, 2017 · Islamist militant group al-Shabab is battling the UN-backed government in Somalia and has carried out attacks in neighbouring Kenya. Who are they?

Aug 2, 2024 · Al-Shabaab, or “the Youth,” is al-Qaeda’s formal affiliate in East Africa. Established in the late 1990s, the Somali-based terror group seeks to establish a fundamentalist Islamic state in the country that it hopes will ultimately expand to encompass the whole Horn of Africa.

Feb 14, 2023 · Al Shabaab (Harakat Al Shabaab Al Mujahidin, Mujahidin Youth Movement) is a Somalia-based insurgent and terrorist group that U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) in 2022 labeled “the largest, wealthiest, and most lethal Al Qaeda affiliate in the world today.”

Aug 26, 2024 · Al-Shabaab has grown rich and retained influence, thanks to six main factors. The west and its African partners have focused on the “ hearts and minds ” approach to counterinsurgency in Somalia....