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Six civilians killed in Somalia hotel siege
AFP, Published on 10/06/2023
» MOGADISHU, Somalia: Six civilians were killed and 10 wounded in a six-hour siege by Islamist Al-Shabaab militants at a beachside hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, police said Saturday.
Uganda says 54 peacekeepers killed in Somalia attack
AFP, Published on 04/06/2023
» KAMPALA: Some 54 Ugandan peacekeepers died when militants besieged an African Union base in Somalia last week, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said, in one of the worst recent attacks by Al-Shabaab jihadists.
Death toll in Somalia hotel siege climbs to 21
AFP, Published on 21/08/2022
» MOGADISHU: The death toll from a devastating 30-hour siege by Al-Shabaab jihadists at a hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu has climbed to 21, Health Minister Ali Haji Adan said Sunday, as anxious citizens awaited news.
Somalis anxiously await news of loved ones as hotel siege ends
AFP, Published on 21/08/2022
» MOGADISHU: Somalis anxiously waited to know the fate of their missing relatives on Sunday as emergency workers attempted to clear debris after a deadly 30-hour siege by Al-Shabaab jihadists at a hotel in the capital Mogadishu.
Al-Shabaab gunmen attack Mogadishu hotel, casualties reported
AFP, Published on 20/08/2022
» MOGADISHU - Al-Shabaab fighters attacked a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu in a hail of gunfire and explosions on Friday, with casualties reported, security sources and witnesses said.
US shaken by racist mass shooting, weekend of gun violence
AFP, Published on 17/05/2022
» NEW YORK - The racist mass shooting at a supermarket in New York state dominated a bloody weekend of gun violence across the United States, a scourge that has increased since the pandemic began.
At least two killed in Tel Aviv shooting
AFP, Published on 08/04/2022
» TEL AVIV - At least two people were killed Thursday and several wounded in a shooting spree in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, the latest in a surge of violence in Israel and the occupied West Bank since late March.
Abubakar Shekau: Boko Haram's radical leader
AFP, Published on 07/06/2021
» KANO (NIGERIA) - Abubakar Shekau, the Nigerian leader of the Boko Haram jihadist group, was once rejected by the Islamic State group (IS) for being too radical.
Iran lays to rest nuclear scientist, vows to carry forward work
AFP, Published on 30/11/2020
» TEHRAN: Iran laid to rest a nuclear scientist in a funeral befitting a top "martyr" Monday, vowing to redouble his work after an assassination pinned on arch-foe Israel.
Iran accuses 'mercenary' Israel of killing scientist
AFP, Published on 28/11/2020
» TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Saturday accused arch-foe Israel of acting as a "mercenary" for the US, blaming the Jewish state for assassinating one of Tehran's most prominent nuclear scientists.