Security
  • Security
    • Somalia armed forces capture key Al-Shabaab areas in Bardhere, Gedo region

    Somalian armed forces have captured a key Al-Shabaab area in Bardhere district in Gedo region,.

    June 3, 2019
  • Security
    • UN votes to reduce troop presence in Somalia by 1,000

    The United Nations unanimously approved a resolution Friday to cut the number of peacekeeping troops.

    June 2, 2019
  • Security
  • Somalia
    • Somalia’s frightening network of Islamist spies

    Somalia’s militant Islamists remain relatively undiminished, despite a 12-year UN-backed campaign against them, largely thanks.

    May 27, 2019
  • Research
  • Security
    • The Cost of Defection: The Consequences of Quitting Al-Shabaab

    Christian Taylor, Tanner Semmelrock, Alexandra McDermott

    May 25, 2019
  • Featured
  • Security
    • Ex-minister among five killed in Mogadishu car bomb

    MOGADISHU: A former Somali foreign minister was among five killed on Wednesday when a car.

    May 23, 2019
  • Opinion
  • Research
  • Security
    • What went wrong with the Somali national army? Paul D. Williams

    Originally published on https://warontherocks.com

    May 21, 2019
  • Kenya
  • Security
  • Somalia
    • Kenya wants UN to list Al-Shabaab as terrorist group

    NAIROBI, Kenya, May 21 – Kenya is seeking the European Union (EU) support to have.

    May 21, 2019
  • Security
    • 18 people killed as Al-Shabaab attacks army base in Somalia

    Mogadishu – Eighteen people were killed when Islamist terrorist group al-Shabaab attacked an army base.

    May 21, 2019
  • Security
    • Somalia’s Al-Shabaab Have Changed Tactics, UN Warns

    What lies ahead after the latest UN reports claim Al-Shabaab militants have changed tactics to.

    May 21, 2019
  • Opinion
  • Security
    • How to end the civil war in Somalia: Negotiate with Al-Shabaab

    When I worked in Somalia from 2016 to 2018 supporting provision of military assistance to.

    May 14, 2019
  • Security
  • Somalia
    • Turkish engineer killed by car bomb in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu

    A bomb attack in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has killed a Turkish citizen, police said Sunday..

    May 13, 2019
  • Security
  • Somalia
    • US military airstrike kills 13 terrorists in Somalia

    The United States military said it killed 13 terrorists in an airstrike targeting an ISIS-Somalia.

    May 10, 2019
  • Opinion
  • Security
    • Reinvigorating the forgotten financial fight against Al-Shabaab

    The lessons learned from disrupting Daesh financing must be applied to the unchecked funding of Al-Shabaab, the jihadist fundamentalist group based in East Africa.

    May 8, 2019
  • Security
  • World News
    • China To Increase Overseas Military Bases: Pentagon Report

    Beijing will seek to add bases to provide security to One Belt, One Road infrastructure projects, Pentagon report says.

    Al-Jazeera.com

    May 4, 2019
  • Security
  • Somalia
    • Perpetual War in Somalia

    ✓ On April 10, President Trump signed an extension of the emergency order authorizing the continuation of U.S. military operations in Somalia.
    ✓ Just last week, the U.S. military conducted an airstrike in Somalia, reportedly killing three Islamic State fighters, demonstrating the tactical nature of the counterterrorism fight.
    ✓ The U.S. is now committed to training and equipping five brigades of elite Somali soldiers, while others are tasked with building an entirely new Somali army.
    ✓ Now that that the Islamic State’s territorial caliphate has been destroyed, there are concerns that foreign fighters will travel to Somalia to reinforce the growing IS presence there and throughout the Horn of Africa.

    https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/perpetual-war-in-somalia

    May 2, 2019
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