News Source: Daily Nation
| 2 months ago
Somali Islamist group Al-Shabaab will investigate the air attack by American choppers on a convoy of vehicles in Southern Somalia, spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Raghe alias Ali Dhere, told local media. The surprise raid by US on Monday killed among...
News Source: Sify News
| 2 months ago
Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab Tuesday vowed to retaliate against the US as it confirmed that one of its 'top leaders' died in a US raid. Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, wanted in connection with several terrorist attacks in neighbouring Kenya,...
News Source: Al Jazeera
| 2 months ago
Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, wanted over a deadly hotel bombing in Kenya in 2002, was killed in a helicopter raid along with al-Shabab fighters on Monday, according to unnamed US officials and Somali sources. A senior al-Shabab commander said the...
News Source: BBC
| 2 months ago
Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan is believed to have been killed in a US military helicopter raid. US agents have been hunting Nabhan for years over attacks on a hotel and an Israeli airliner in Kenya in 2002. It is believed he fled to Somalia...
News Source: The Examiner
| 2 months ago
One of Africa's most wanted al-Qaida suspects has been killed in a U.S. raid in southern Somalia, the deputy mayor for security affairs in Somalia's capital said Tuesday. Citing intelligence reports, Abdi Fitah Shawey confirmed that Saleh Ali Saleh...
News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| 2 months ago
Special Operations forces attacked a car in southern Somalia on Monday and killed one of east Africa's most wanted al Qaeda militants, a U.S. official said. The commandos, among the most elite and secretive of all U.S. military forces, had spent days...