Al-Shabaab

Turkey has condemned a series of deadly bombings in eastern Libya and the Somalian capital Mogadishu.

A statement issued by the Turkish Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the bombings in Libya's eastern Al-Qubbah city that left 47 people dead and dozens injured on Feb. 20, offered condolences to the victims' families and wished a fast recovery for the injured.

An attack against a hotel in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Jan. 22 killed five people, including two suicide bombers, on the eve of Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an?s visit to Somalia. A Turkish delegation preparing for Erdo?an?s visit has been staying at the hotel, in front of which a Turkish flag had been raised. Yet another terrorist attack to be condemned...

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has called terrorism a “crime against humanity” that does not have a place in Islam.   

“We believe that terrorism is a crime against humanity and our religion,” Arınç said Dec. 24 during an official visit to Kuwait, during which he met with Kuwait’s Minister of Religious Endowment & Islamic Affairs Yaqoob al-San’a.

There is every evidence that Kenyans may be conspiring with intergalactic forces - and all but a few of the world’s U.N. member nations - to stop Turkey’s enviable rise and rise. They do this by perishing by the dozens.

In line with the government’s eagerness for making the Turkish opening of Africa a legendary success story, the African continent received the biggest share of overall assistance provided for different regions by Turkey’s aid agency in 2013.

The leader of the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, Ahmed Abdi Godane, was killed following a US attack earlier this week, the Pentagon has said, Friday.

U.S. military forces launched air strikes against the leader of Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked Shebab, the Somali government said Sept. 1, but gave no details if the attack was successful.

Gunmen killed at least 29 people in raids on two separate areas on the Kenyan coast, the interior ministry said on July 6.
   
The Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab, which attacked the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi last September, said it had staged an attack on Saturday evening in the coastal area.
   

Jihadists groups in Iraq, Kenya and Nigeria have killed dozens of pepole since the start of the World Cup, mirroring their actions four years ago It’s not just football fans whose football fever soars during a World Cup. So does that of militant Islamists and jihadists with deadly consequences.

An Ankara court has ruled to issue an arrest warrant for five Ethiopian al-Shabaab leaders as part of an investigation into a suicide attack on the Turkish Embassy that killed an embassy personnel in Mogadishu in July last year.