With the standoff between a group of terrorists and Kenyan government forces at Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall officially over, the Kenyan government and its foreign allies are intensifying their efforts to find out who the …
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Four Incredible Survivor Stories From The Kenya Terror Attack
The terror unleashed in Nairobi’s Westgate Shopping Mall started on Saturday afternoon, with gunshots shattering the buzz of the popular weekend meeting spot. The ensuing hostage crisis left at least 61 civilians dead and a …
Militants Claim Kenya Mall Rescuers Buried Hostages with Explosives
Government denies the charge
Kenyans Fearful, Defiant as Nairobi Mall Attack Appears to Wind Down
As the standoff at an upscale Nairobi mall between Islamist terrorists and the Kenyan security forces comes to a close, the people of the city are trying to make sense of what has happened and are adjusting to a new sense of …
Little Boy To Kenya Gunman: ‘You’re A Bad Man’
Militant spares four-year-old after the boy shames him
Kenya Says U.S. Nationals Among Nairobi Attackers
Country’s Foreign Minister says U.S. attackers are teens of Somali or Arab origin and that British attacker is a woman
The Security Lapses That Led to the Nairobi-Mall Terrorist Attack
As Kenyan security forces fought a fierce gun battle against al-Shabab militants at Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall on Monday, trying to break the three-day hostage siege, some wondered how the country’s intelligence and …
Kenya Defense Forces Have Taken Control of Westgate Mall, Trapped Militants
The Kenya Defense Forces say they have regained control of Westgate Mall Monday morning, two days after it was attacked by alleged al-Shabab terrorists Saturday.
The KDF …
Kenya’s Somali Population Fear Reprisals After Mall Attack
Members of the Somali community in the Kenyan capital Nairobi have voiced fears that the militant attack on a Nairobi shopping mall could trigger a violent backlash against them, Reuters reports. The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab said it carried out the raid on the Westgate shopping center. At least 62 people have been killed in the …
Kenyan Authorities Assault Nairobi Mall as Hostage Crisis Enters Third Day
Kenyan authorities reportedly raided the upscale Nairobi mall where up to 15 gunmen are holding an unknown number of hostages, two days since the terrorist attack killed more than 60 people and injured at least 170. In a statement aired on Kenya’s KTN TV, Cabinet Secretary Joseph Ole Lenku confirmed that two attackers were killed when …
Al-Shabab Militants Threaten to Kill Remaining Hostages in Nairobi Mall
Kenyan crisis enters its third day with 68 dead and more than 170 injured
Terror in Nairobi: Behind al-Shabab’s War With Kenya
A swanky, high-end mall in Nairobi is the site of a deadly standoff between Kenyan forces and fighters linked to the al-Qaeda-backed Somali terror group al-Shabab. On Saturday, gunmen burst into the mall, tossing grenades “like …
Kenya Mall Attack: Eyewitness Accounts of Gunshots and Grenades
“We began crawling behind cars and underneath cars”