SOMALIS FEAR YOUTHS LEAVING US FOR TERROR GROUP
By STEVE KARNOWSKI In this photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013, a young Somali boy accompanies his mother who covers her head to avoid being photographed by the high rise…
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KENYAN FORCES LAUNCH ASSAULT TO END HOSTAGE SIEGE
By JASON STRAZIUSO and TOM ODULA Trucks of soldiers from the Kenya Defense Forces arrive after dawn outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. Islamic extremist…
A LOOK AT MAJOR TERROR ATTACKS IN EAST AFRICA
Associated Press FILE – In this Friday, Aug. 7, 1998 file photo, rescue workers carry Susan Francisca Murianki, a U.S. Embassy office worker, over the rubble of a collapsed building…
39 DEAD IN KENYA MALL ATTACK; HOSTAGES STILL HELD
By JASON STRAZIUSO and TOM ODULA Civilians who had been hiding inside during the gun battle manage to flee from the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013.…
REPORTS INDICATE AMERICAN JIHADI KILLED IN SOMALIA
By ABDI GULED and JASON STRAZIUSO FILE – In this Wednesday, May 11, 2011 file photo, American-born Islamist militant Omar Hammami addresses a press conference of the militant group al-Shabab…
POLICE: 15 DIE AFTER BLASTS HIT SOMALIA RESTAURANT
By ABDI GULED Somali soldiers look at the bodies of some of those who were killed in a suicide and car bomb blasts at a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday,…
KENYA: RADICAL MUSLIM CLERIC DEATH STILL A MYSTERY
By TOM ODULA FILE- In this file photo of Friday Nov. 21, 2003, Aboud Rogo Mohammed, talks to his 8-year-old son, Khubaid Aboud, in the Nairobi High Court. A Kenyan government…
YEAR AFTER LEADER DIES, ETHIOPIA IS LITTLE CHANGED
By KIRUBEL TADESSE Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Dessalegni and Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir chat during the the first year anniversary ceremonyof the death of long-time ruler Meles Zenawi in Addis…