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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Somalia

Relatives carry the body of a woman killed during an attack in Mogadishu on August 3, 2024. (Hassan Ali Elmi/AFP)
August 3, 2024, 12:13 pm
At least 32 killed in Islamist suicide bombing, shooting attack on busy Mogadishu beach
Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group, claims responsibility for attack on popular Lido beach area; police kill five gunmen in addition to suicide bomber
By AFP
File: Hundreds of newly trained al-Shabaab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area some 18 km south of Mogadishu, Somalia (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
December 25, 2022, 1:58 pm
14 fishermen return to Iran years after kidnapping by Somalia’s Al-Shabaab
Men welcomed in a special ceremony at Tehran airport, some as many as 8 years after their abduction in international waters
By AFP
Security forces patrol near the Hayat Hotel after an attack by Al-Shabaab fighters in Mogadishu on August 20, 2022. (Hassan Ali ELMI / AFP)
August 21, 2022, 1:57 am
Somali forces say they regained control of hotel after deadly jihadist siege
Security commander says all holed-up Al-Shabaab gunmen have been killed, but doesn’t update death toll after earlier reports revealed 20 dead, 40 injured
By Agencies
Security officers patrol near the the site of explosions in Mogadishu, Somalia, on August 20, 2022. (Hassan Ali Elmi/AFP)
August 20, 2022, 3:19 pm
Somali official raises death toll in Mogadishu hotel attack to 13
Security commander says most civilians who were at hotel when jihadist group al-Shabaab launched assault have been rescued
By AFP
Security forces patrol near the Hayat Hotel after an attack by Al-Shabaab fighters in Mogadishu on August 20, 2022. (Hassan Ali Elmi/AFP)
August 20, 2022, 9:02 am
At least 10 killed as jihadists storm hotel in Somali capital
Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab claims responsibility for attack in Mogadishu; no immediate word on identifies of victims
By Omar Faruk
New Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, right, is joined by incumbent President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, left, as he speaks to reporters after winning the election in Mogadishu, Somalia, February 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
July 12, 2022, 12:25 pm
Netanyahu and Somalian president met secretly in 2020, ex-diplomat claims
Amid sporadic reports of warming ties between countries, official says Trump didn’t want the Arab League member in Abraham Accords; Netanyahu’s office does not confirm
By Lazar Berman
Somali President Hassan Sheik Mohamud, in his presidential office at Villa Somalia, Mogadishu, in 2016 (AU-UN IST Photo/Stuart Price/Wikipedia)
July 9, 2022, 11:10 pm
Report: Somali president plans talks with parliament on possible ties with Israel
Earlier this year a diplomat close to Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said his reelection opened door to relations between Mogadishu and Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
Somali President Hassan Sheik Mohamud, in his presidential office at Villa Somalia, Mogadishu, in 2016 (AU-UN IST Photo/Stuart Price/Wikipedia)
May 22, 2022, 4:41 pm
Somali leader who met Netanyahu returns to power, and some see hope of normalization
Group opposing ties with Israel is out, says diplomat after Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s election, but Mogadishu has more pressing issues to cope with
By Lazar Berman
Destroyed building of Mocaasir primary and secondary school is seen at a bomb explosion site in Mogadishu, Somalia, on November 25, 2021. (AFP)
November 25, 2021, 2:13 pm
8 killed in bombing in Somalian capital claimed by Al-Shabaab
Car bomb goes off near Mogadishu school, seriously damaging building and injuring students, with al-Qaeda-linked group taking responsibility
By AFP
A junior sniper, assigned to the 1-186th Infantry Battalion, Task Force Guardian, Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, provides security for a 75th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron (EAS) C-130J Super Hercules during unloading operations at an unidentified location in Somalia June 28, 2020 (Tech. Sgt. Christopher Ruano/Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa via AP)
December 5, 2020, 7:58 am
After US troop cuts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Trump orders pullout from Somalia
Majority of soldiers to be withdrawn in early 2021; move criticized as ‘surrender to al-Qaeda and a gift to China’; Pentagon says counter-terror work will continue
By Robert Burns
Silvia Romano, escorted by Carabinieri officers, arrives at her home wearing the green hijab typical of Somali Muslim women and a surgical mask to guard against COVID-19, in Milan, Italy, May 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File )
May 15, 2020, 2:23 pm
Italian lawmaker sorry for calling hostage who converted to Islam a ‘terrorist’
Alessandro Pagano of the anti-migrant League party says he had intended to criticize government, not Silvia Romano, who was held captive in Somalia
By Nicole Winfield
A bulldozer seen working as rescue workers search the scene where an Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
January 11, 2020, 4:47 pm
A look at planes brought down by missiles since 1973
Accidental downing of Ukranian airliner in Iran joins similar tragedies that took place in Ukraine, Somalia, Black Sea, Persian Gulf, Sakhalin and the Sinai Desert
By AFP
Medical personnel carry a civilian who was wounded in suicide car bomb attack at check point in Mogadishu, Somalia, December 28, 2019. (Farah Abdi Warsame/AP)
December 31, 2019, 1:30 pm
Somalia’s al-Shabaab extremists claim deadly bombing that killed 79
Jihadist group’s spokesman says Saturday attack targeted ‘hostile Turkish convoy’ – an apparent reference to two of that country’s citizens, brothers, who were among dead
By Abdi Guled
Rescue workers from Somalia and Turkey carry a woman on a stretcher , that was wounded in the December 28, 2019 car bomb explosion in Mogadishu, before being evacuated to Turkey for medical treatment, at the Adan Adde international airport in Mogadishu on December 29, 2019. (Photo by Abdirazak Hussein FARAH / AFP)
December 30, 2019, 4:44 am
US strikes in Somalia kill four terrorists after deadly car bomb
US Africa Command says it conducted 3 airstrikes targeting al-Shabaab members, a day after Somalia’s deadliest attack in two years killed 79
By AFP
A soldier stands guard near wreckage of vehicles in Mogadishu after a car bomb in Mogadishu, Somalia, December 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsame)
December 28, 2019, 12:14 pm
At least 90 killed by truck bomb in Somalia’s capital
No immediate claim of responsibility for blast during rush hour, but al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab has previously conducted similar attacks
By Abdi Guled
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