by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 24, 2017 | World
Eight police officers were killed Wednesday when their vehicles hit roadside bombs in two separate incidents in Kenya’s restive northeast close to the Somali border. The first explosion claimed three lives early Wednesday morning while the second killed five...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 19, 2013 | World
Mogadishu, Reuters—A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people on Saturday in an attack on a cafe in a Somali town close to the Ethiopian border frequented by local and foreign soldiers fighting Al-Qaeda linked rebels. Al-Shabab said it had carried out the bombing, in...
by Samir Salha | Aug 7, 2013 | Opinion
Had the latest attack that targeted the Turkish embassy in the Somali capital of Mogadishu achieved its desired damage, losses would have been far higher than they were. The vigilance of the guards, who killed some of the attackers before they could detonate their...
