UPDATE: Nur-deeq Abdullahi Maalingur a top ranking Al-Shabaab member in Mudug Region surrenders to the Somali National Army alongside an AK-47 rifle and a vehicle; Internal Affairs Minister Ahmed Moallim Fiqi and and other government officials witnessed the event earlier today. pic.twitter.com/RZBHRrlFwz
[Garowe] An operation carried out by the Somali National Army [SNA] and international partners left an al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... base destroyed in Somalia, a senior government official said, noting that several Death Eaters may have also been killed in the process.
Interior and Federal Affairs minister Ahmed Fiqi said the base was destroyed near Harardhere town within Dumaaye village. The international partners have been actively participating in the crackdown against al-Shabaab Death Eaters who control central and southern parts of the country.
A source who spoke to Voice of America said the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... targeted the site used by al-Shabaab which is locally known as Xerta Sheikh Mohammed Rage Center, about 500 meters south of Dumaaye. The Death Eaters use the site for logistics when launching attacks across the country, the source added.
"A joint operation by the Somali Security Forces and international allies has hit a major al-Shabaab base in Dumaye, Harardere district, killing many hard boyz and their leaders," state media confirmed without giving actual numbers of casualties in the operation which was termed "successful".
Classified military sources termed the airstrike as "timely and significant " in the fight against al-Shabaab. Dozens of the Death Eaters may have bit the dust, a critical comeback for the military after losing soldiers in Cawsweyne village in Lower Shabelle last week, in an attack which the government is yet to give full disclosure.
The operation comes at the time Somali National Army is preparing yet for another outing which would focus on Jubaland and Southwest states. The second phase of operations would see military officers from Kenya, Djibouti, and Æthiopia joining, outside the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Transition Mission in Somalia [ATMIS] ranks.
ATMIS and the US Africa Command have been closely working in nurturing and equipping the Somali National Army as the foreign troops prepare for exit from the Horn of Africa nation. The drawdown which started in June 2023, will yet again see 3,000 soldiers conclude their mission in Somalia.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud maintains that his administration would work extra hard to eliminate the hard boys, but in an interview on Friday, he admitted that organizers should have not scheduled the exit of ATMIS troops from Somalia this month.
‘Several’ Al-Shabaab militants killed in U.S. airstrike in central Somalia https://t.co/o9Lh4vn3Uc
A U.S. airstrike hit Al-Shabaab targets in Mudug region killing several militants, military sources said.
According to reports from Mudug region, the airstrike targeted a forest in Dumaye area in Haradhere district where Al-Shabaab militants were gathering.
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The thing about cockroaches, though, is if you don’t regularly clear them out you’ll find yourself completely overrun... and spreading to infest the neighbours.
UPDATE: Somali police say they have arrested two suspects for an attempt to smuggle a vehicle laden with explosives into Mogadushu. Police said the car exploded as the security forces were interrogating the suspects. No casualty has been recorded. pic.twitter.com/aBSx1HI6LF
Two suspected al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... murderous Moslems were arrested Saturday morning after a vehicle they were travelling went burst at a police checkpoint in Mogadishu.
The two were arrested by security forces shortly after the blast. According to sources near the scene, the vehicle went kaboom! as police inspected vehicles at War Laliska junction in Daynille district. Sources said the vehicle tried to by-pass the police check forcing the security forces to intercept it.
It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties.
[Garowe] The Somali National Army and international partners on Saturday killed 20 al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... Death Eaters during an operation in the lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia, an official said.
Abdirahman Yusuf al-Adala, deputy minister of information, culture, and tourism, said that the joint forces hit the Death Eaters in their hideout during the dawn operation.
A military offensive against the Death Eaters has been intensified in central Somalia, al-Adala added.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The General Intelligence Service (GIS) issued a call for its former Special Operations Forces members to return to service, signalling the revival of these units notorious for their friction with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The GIS released an announcement on August 29, urging former agency members interested in rejoining to register their names at local administrative or security units, using the provided forms.
This development confirms the return of numerous Special Operations Forces members to service, which began shortly after the outbreak of armed conflict in Khartoum in April 2023. Many of these disbanded unit members joined the Sudan ese army following a general mobilization call by army commander-in-chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
The Special Operations Forces were dissolved in July 2019 after the dissolution of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) and the establishment of the General Intelligence Service. At that time, the 13,000 fighters declined an offer to join the RSF and vocally criticised the then-GIS Director, Lt Gen Abu-Bakr Damlab.
The Special Operations Forces members staged a rebellion approximately five months after their dissolution, on January 14, 2020, voicing their demands for equitable compensation.
RSF leader and Deputy Head of the Sovereign Council, Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemetti), at the time, accused former NISS Director Salah Gosh of criminal masterminding the rebellion. Hemetti alleged that the GIS had failed to retrieve weapons from discharged personnel.
The special operations units were originally established in 2005 by the former NISS under Lt Gen Salah Gosh.
Hemetti believed that this predominantly northern and central Sudanese force remained loyal to Gosh. Following its dissolution, the RSF assumed its duties, securing oil fields, strategic sites, patrolling borders, and combating human trafficking.
In September 2021, calls grew louder for the restoration of the special force after GIS members were killed while confronting a terrorist cell in the Jabra suburb, south of Khartoum. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... Hemetti remained opposed to this idea.
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[AFRICANEWS] The International Committee of the Red Thingy says 43 bodies have been collected in the past week from the front line of the latest fighting in a disputed city in Somaliland.
The ICRC in a statement Friday said a further 110 maimed people have been taken to hospitals in the past week by the Somali Red Islamic Thingy Society amid festivities that have continued for months in and around Las-Anod. The statement did not identify the dead or those to blame.
Somaliland separated from Somalia three decades ago and has sought recognition as an independent country. Somaliland security forces have been fighting clan militia who wish to be part of Somalia, whose 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... state for years has disputed Las-Anod with Somaliland.
Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the fighting. It is not known how many hundreds of people have been killed in total. The ICRC reported "widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure" in Las-Anod, the capital of the Sool region.
Somaliland's government in a statement Thursday condemned what it alleged were images circulating of mistreatment of its captured soldiers and reminded combatants of the Geneva Conventions guidelines, as well as Islamic custom, for the treatment of prisoners.
Hundreds of people have been captured on both sides in the latest fighting, and the ICRC said it had managed to make its first visit to 300 held by the militias. Four maimed detainees were taken to a hospital, it said. ICRC staff had previously visited captured militia forces in the Somaliland capital.
Somaliland's defense ministry earlier this year denied that the army had shelled the main hospital in Las-Anod.
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More facts have emerged on how residents of Birnin Magaji in Zamfara Statekidnapped wives of holy warriors in retaliation to a recent kidnapping in the community.
This was confirmed a youth leader of the community to PRNigeria, who said that the step was taken by the concerned youths due incessant attacks by holy warriors on their community in recent times.
"The bandidos invaded the farm and threatened the farmers before they took them away.
It was reported recently that the Nigerian government authorities are in the habit of reporting Muslim Fulanis attacking Christian villagers as “bandits” to conceal the level of jihad action in the region.
"These days many people here cannot go to the farm and even in our homes; we are afraid they could come and abduct us for ransom," he said.
In retaliation, the dwellers of the community intercepted the terrorists’ wives, including a pregnant woman, while they were returning to their
In Zamfara, terrorists’ attack have been very common lately. In August, SaharaReporters reported how holy warriors kidnapped at least 80 children during a fresh operation in the Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
In another incident, operatives of the Nigerian Police Force and the Nigerian Army said they had organised a search party for eight kidnapped National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members in Zamfara State.
It was learnt that the corps members were travelling in an Akwa Ibom Transport Company (AKTC) bus from Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, to Sokoto State, for the one-year national service, when their vehicle was intercepted by the terrorists.
Syrian pro-Iran figure and Iranian militias cross to the eastern area of the #Euphrates where clashes have erupted between the SDF and gunmen for five days. #Syria#Iran.https://t.co/cbQuWZXPKB
[Regnum] American drones of the international coalition in Syria over the past day violated the airspace ten times. Vadim Kulit, Deputy Head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Warring Parties, announced this during a briefing on September 2.
“During the day, the “coalition” recorded 10 cases of violation of the Deconfliction Protocols of December 9, 2019, related to flights of unmanned aerial vehicles that were not coordinated with the Russian side,” Kulit said.
He also added that about 18 violations by four pairs of American F-35 fighters, two pairs of F-16 fighters and two pairs of MQ-1C multi-purpose unmanned aerial vehicles were recorded in the area of the Al-Tanf zone over the past day.
As IA Regnum reported, on September 1, the head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov , said that the Russian side had proposed to Turkey to return to an agreement allowing Turkish forces to fight terrorist forces in Syria.
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