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    Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, commonly known as al-Shabaab, is a Sunni Islamist military and political organization based in Somalia and active elsewhere...
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    Al-Shabaab (Arabic: الشباب, lit. 'The Youth'), also known as Ansar al-Sunna (Arabic: أنصار السنة, transl.  'Supporters of the Tradition') or Ahlu Sunna...
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    The Houthi movement (/ˈhuːθi/; Arabic: الحوثيون al-Ḥūthiyūn [al.ħuː.θi.juːn]), officially known as Ansar Allah (أنصار الله ʾAnṣār Allāh, lit. 'Supporters...
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    and al-Shabaab militants who pledged alliegence to al-Qaeda during 2012. During the insurgency that followed the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, al-Shabaab...
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  • free dictionary. Al-Shabaab or Al-Shabab (الشباب al-Shabāb) is an Arabic phrase meaning "the Youth". It may refer to: Al Shabab Al Arabi Club Beirut...
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  • In July 2022, the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab launched an invasion from Somalia into Ethiopia's Somali Region. Following attacks on the Somali side...
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    strikes, advisory missions, training, provided intelligence, and attacked al-Shabaab militants. Two U.S. special operations personnel, two contractors, one...
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  • citizen who was a member and leader in the Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabaab. A federal warrant for his arrest was issued in 2007. In November 2012...
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    to push back Al-Shabaab over the following years. On August 6, 2011, Al-Shabaab was forced to withdraw from most of Mogadishu. Al-Shabaab did still retain...
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    militias. In March 2009, after Al Shabaab killed multiple Sufi clerics, ASWJ declared jihad against it. ASWJ and al-Shabaab battled each other for control...
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    supported the Federal Government of Somalia's forces in their battle against Al-Shabaab militants. AMISOM was created by the African Union's Peace and Security...
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  • been called Somalia Province ("Wilayat al Somal") by pro-IS media. ISS is also the declared enemy of al-Shabaab, which considers the Islamic State a significant...
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  • became re-involved several years later to counter the growing strength of Al-Shabaab. Ethiopian military involvement began in response to the rising power...
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    II, the Islamic Courts Union, the Ethiopian National Defence Forces, Al-Shabaab, the African Union Mission to Somalia and the Somali National Army. Baledogle...
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    subsequently splintered into more radical groups, including the jihadist group al-Shabaab, which battled the TFG and its AMISOM allies for control of the region...
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    Ahmed Abdi Godane (category Assassinated al-Shabaab (militant group) members)
    September 2014), also known as Mukhtar Abu Zubair, was the Emir (leader) of Al-Shabaab, an Islamist Terrorist group based in Somalia. Godane, who received training...
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    starting the war against Al-Shabaab and a faction led by Hassan "Turki" siding with Al Shabaab. The Battle of Kismayo was won by Al-Shabaab which expelled Sheikh...
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    Peninsula (AQAP) Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) Al Shabaab Hurras al-Din Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin...
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  • overwhelmingly sympathies lay with Al-Shabaab as the TFG was widely viewed as an Ethiopian puppet and Al-Shabaab the only organized resistance to Ethiopian...
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  • Jilib, Somalia, hit a vehicle carrying senior Al-Shabaab leader Hassan Ali Dhoore and two other Al-Shabaab members. 2 April From October 2015, the U.S.-led...
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    January 2016, al-Shabaab carried out a suicide car bombing and mass shooting at a restaurant, killing about 20 people. In August 2020, al-Shabaab attacked...
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  • landed in al-Shabaab controlled territory after encountering "a defect" shortly after takeoff from Beledweyne, Hiran. 16 January – An al-Shabaab suicide...
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    warfighting missions, for example the counter-insurgency fight against Al-Shabaab in Somalia since 2011. The United Kingdom raised and maintained forces...
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  • years. Al-Shabaab, meaning "the Youth", is a Somalia-based cell of the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda, formally recognized in 2012. Al-Shabaab is designated...
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    Paradise hotel in 2002 in Mombasa. In 2013, the Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab killed 67 people at Nairobi's Westgate Shopping Mall. There have also...
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    Bernard (20 May 2022). "Somalia: Al-Shabaab ntishobora gutsindwa mu nzira ya gisirikare – umuhinga" [Somalia: Al-Shabaab Cannot Be Defeated by Military...
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    army special forces killed between 1 and 15 Al-Shabaab terrorists in a heliborne-attack on the Al-Shabaab-controlled town of Awdhegele, as well as capturing...
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    control of Islamist factions, particularly Al-Shabaab. The withdrawal of Ethiopian troops sapped Al-Shabaab of the widespread support it had enjoyed from...
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    the city of Baladweyne from al-Shabaab. In May 2013, Governor Hiran decided to send deserter soldiers from al-Shabaab who are hiding, and asked the local...
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  • Samantha Lewthwaite (category Al-Shabaab (militant group) members)
    alleged to be a member of the Somalia-based radical Islamic militant group Al-Shabaab. She is accused of orchestrating grenade attacks at non-Muslim places...
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