Militant spares four-year-old after the boy shames him
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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”
Nairobi Shopping Mall Shootout Leaves At Least 68 Dead
A group of masked gunmen opened fire at an upscale Nairobi mall Saturday, leading to a fierce firefight with police and injuring dozens
Gunmen Kill 68 in Kenya Mall Attack
Gunmen opened fire at an upscale Nairobi mall Saturday, killing at least 68 and wounding 175. The city’s police chief Benson Kibue told the Associated Press that it was likely an act of terrorism, with no more than 10 attackers involved. After the gunmen burst into the Westgate mall, which is situated in an affluent neighborhood and …
Tunisian Women Go on ‘Sex Jihad’ to Syria, Minister Says
Tunisia, the largely moderate North African country, has struggled to stymie the flow of hundreds of young men leaving to fight alongside rebels in Syria’s more than two-year-long, bloody civil war.
Now, the interior minister says, the country must also slow a stream of young Tunisian women leaving for Syria on “sexual …
