...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....
branch in Somalia has claimed credit for a kaboom in Mogadishu which claimed the lives of at least four Somali soldiers.
A statement carried out ISIS’s mouthpiece channel, Amaq News Agency said the landmine blast struck security forces’ convoy in the capital’s northern Deynile district last weekend.
The Pro-Islamic State faction who has a strong presence in Puntland
...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...
, northeast of Somalia occasionally conduct sporadic attacks in the south of the capital, mainly in Mogadishu.
The regions in southern Somalia have been plagued by violence and battles between Federal government and Al-Shabaab
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an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia..., the Al Qaeda-linked Lion of Islam group.