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2010 Kenya–Al-Shabaab Border Clash
The 2010 Kenya–Al-Shabaab border clash occurred on July 20, 2010, when gunmen from the Al-Shabaab (militant group), Al-Shabaab terrorist group attacked a Kenyan border patrol along the border area in Liboi, Lagdera Constituency, Lagdera. There was a subsequent fierce exchange of fire between the two sides leading to the deaths of two militia and the wounding of one Kenyan officer.Ali, Noo2 Kenyan forces, al Shabaab rebels clash on border Reuters, July 20, 2010. Hundreds of security personnel were later deployed to the border following the clash and because of continued fighting between two militia groups in the neighboring town of Dobley, Somalia. , The Standard, July 29, 2010. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Shabaab (militant Group)
Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, simply known as al-Shabaab, or by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Somalia, is a transnational Salafi jihadism, Salafi Jihadist military and political organization based in Somalia and is also in a more limited capacity active elsewhere in East Africa. It is involved in the ongoing Somali_Civil_War_(2009–present), Somali Civil War as an Islamism, Islamist group, regularly invoking takfir to rationalize its Islamic terrorism, terrorist attacks on Somali civilians and civil service, civil servants. Allied to the Islamic_extremism#Contemporary_Islam, Militant Sunni Islamist organization al-Qaeda, it has also forged ties with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Formed in the mid-2000s as a youth militia within the wider military wing of the Islamic Courts Union, al-Shabaab came to prominence during the 2006–2009 Somalia War (2006–2009), Ethiopian invasion and occupation of Somalia, during which it presen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
