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August 24th, 2010 (Geopoliticalmonitor) - Al-Shabab’s latest attack displays a level of planning and execution that doesn’t bode well for the AU-backed transitional government in Mogadishu.

July 28th (Geopoliticalmonitor.com) - The al-Shabab attack on World Cup revelers in Uganda three weeks ago has served as a wake-up call for African Union leaders.

July 21st (BBC News) - US authorities have charged a man with providing material support to Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab.

This weekend’s double bombing in Kampala bears all the hallmarks of an al-Shabab attack. It seems that Somalia’s homegrown strain of the Taliban has struck outside its own borders for the very first time.

MOGADISHU, July 7th (AP) - Witnesses say Somalis in four towns held by Islamist militants are protesting a recent decision by East African nations to send 2,000 more peacekeepers to Somalia.

May 19th (Press TV) - Al-Shabab fighters have attacked the offices of a relief agency in southern Somalia and ordered the NGO to cease operations in the area.

May 7, 2010 (IOL, Ludmila Danilova) - Russian forces seized a hijacked Russian oil tanker from Somali pirates and rescued its crew in a helicopter-backed operation in the Gulf of Aden on Thursday that killed one of the pirates, authorities said.

May 6, 2010 (AFP) - Somali pirates seized control of an oil-laden Russian tanker in the Gulf of Aden early yesterday setting up a high-seas standoff with a Russian destroyer steaming to the zone. The 230m-long Moscow University was heading east from the Gulf of Aden early yesterday when it was boarded by pirates around 350 nautical miles off the Yemeni coast, the EU anti-piracy mission said.

April 28th (BBC News) - At least 14 civilians have been killed during a battle between government soldiers and al-Qaeda-linked fighters, witnesses say.

April 15th (Al Jazeera) Barack Obama, the US president, has issued an executive order to freeze assets of individuals with ties to Somalia's  al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab movement.