Drone crash: Technical glitch, or Shot down? #Somalia

Unverified news reports emerged  earlier that a possible unmanned United states drone crashed in Somalia’s Southern region of the lower shabelle. Regional governor Abdul qadir Mohammed nur speaking to VOA Somali service confirmed the crash, and speculated that it was downed by the militants. AlShabab have also already confirmed on their official twitter account that they…

Identities of international militants killed in suspected #Somalia drone strike revealed

(note: links and blog contents are for research and educational purposes only, links are not to endorse sites or contents)  US military launched a drone strike yesterday, against a convoy carrying international militants linked to Al Qaeda, the convoy was travelling in an area known as K60 approximately 60KM (35M) south of the capital Mogadishu in the lower…

#AlShabaab’s media wing Al kataib latest release;- “Battlefront – El-wak Repelling the Kenyan Proxies” (English)

(note: links and blog contents are for research and educational purposes only, links are not to endorse sites or contents) Brief Yesterday Harakat Al Shabaab Almujahideen’s media wing Al- Kataib (the brigades)  released a new professionally produced documentary video,the first since the groups merger with Al-Qaeda , the documentary depicts a battle in the early…

Al Shabaab ( @hsmpress ) Publish documents of Dead Burundian soldiers

(note: links and blog contents are for research purposes only, links are not to endorse sites or contents) Earlier today The Somali War Monitor  received a press release from Harakat Al Shabaab Al Mujahideen (HSM) containing images of personal Identification documents belonging to some 10 burundian soldiers . The soldiers were killed in fierce battle…

A Kuwaiti charity begins work in Somalia, risky business?

A day after harakat al-shabaab al-mujahideen (hsm) spokesman Shaykh ‘ali dheere relayed the movement is allowing aid agencies to do relief work inside areas of the country controlled by them, a Kuwaiti charity organisation in a press release revealed its intention to provide upto a million dollars of emergency relief aid. Al-shabaab will more than…