...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
has killed eight soldiers and injured three others.
Ahmed Mohammed tells The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that Sunday’s blast targeted a military convoy in Galgala. Security forces have been battling Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
-linked fighters in the region.
There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, but the IS-linked
Fighters affiliated with the Islamic State are a relatively new and growing threat in Somalia, where the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab
...
the personification of Somali state failure...murderous Moslem group has been entrenched for years.