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Admin - Mar 10, 10
March 9th (BBC News) - A senior insurgent leader from Hizbul Islam has been shot to death in Mogadishu, deepening a leadership crisis inside the Islamist rebel group. The official, Bare Ali Bare, was an outspoken critic of Hizbul Islam's one-time ally, al-Shabab, raising speculation that the militant group carried out the assassination.
Admin - Mar 09, 10
Mar. 8th (Globe and Mail) - Ottawa has opened a new front in its global conflict with Islamic extremism by joining the attack on al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group in East Africa that draws young recruits and support from Canada and around the world.
Admin - Mar 04, 10
Mar. 3rd (CBC News) - At least 10 civilians and four militants were killed Tuesday in a gunfight between government forces and Islamists insurgents in Somalia, witnesses report.
Admin - Mar 03, 10
NAIROBI, Mar 2nd (AP) - Last year Somalia's Radio Warsan was a pro-government station that vilified al-Qaida-linked insurgents. Today it is in the hands of the rebels as they battle the U.N.-backed government on the ground with guns and on the nation's airwaves with pro-jihad messages.
Admin - Mar 02, 10
LONDON, Mar. 1st (Reuters) - The British government said Monday it is banning Somali terrorist organization al-Shabab, an al-Qaida-linked Islamist group fighting the anarchic country's transitional government.
Admin - Mar 01, 10
Feb. 28 (Al Jazeera) - Al-Shabab, the Somali Islamist opposition group, has announced it will stop World Food Programme (WFP) operations in Somalia.
Admin - Feb 24, 10
Feb. 23 (All Africa) - Amnesty International is calling for the immediate release of a Somali radio journalist held by the armed group al-Shabab, apparently after a report was broadcast alleging the group had killed a man in the Wanleweyn district.
Admin - Feb 23, 10
Feb. 22 (VOA News) - Hizbul Islam announces end of alliance with al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab insurgents; civilians brace for clashes as hundreds flee Mogadishu ahead of government offensive.
Admin - Feb 18, 10
Feb. 17 (All Africa News) - At least five people were killed and several others injured when Hizbul Islam fighters engaged Al-Shabab fighters in the Somali border town of Dhobley near the Kenyan border, officials and witnesses said.
Admin - Feb 15, 10
Feb. 15 (BBC News) - Somalia's state minister for defence has survived an assassination attempt by a suicide bomber in Mogadishu.
