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Armed al-Shabab fighters ride on pickup trucks as they prepare to travel into the city, just outside the capital Mogadishu, in Somalia on Dec. 8, 2008. The al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab claimed an attack that killed three Emirati troops and a Bahraini military officer on a training mission at a military base in the Somali capital, authorities said Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Biden has few options for floundering war on al-Shabab, with echoes of Afghanistan

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

UN votes to crack down on Somalia’s al-Shabab extremists

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

An armed member of the militant group al-Shabaab attends a rally on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, in this Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, photo. (AP Photo) **FILE**

Al-Shabab threatens to trap U.S. military in Somalia ‘endless war’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Somali Member of Parliament Muse Sheikh Omar, center, carries a young Somali girl deportee as he helps Somalis who had been deported from Kenya to Somalia from their aircraft after it landed at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Kenya's security minister said Wednesday that 82 Somali nationals have been deported in an ongoing security crackdown following recent terror attacks in Kenya's capital and the port city of Mombasa. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Kenya deports 82 Somalis in terror crackdown

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

**FILE** African Union soldiers in armored personnel carriers keep guard Sept. 12, 2012, outside the Jazeera Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, the temporary home of new Somalian president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, which was hit by two explosions earlier that day. The explosions came a day after the election of Mohamud, killing at least five people and wounded three others, witnesses and officials said. (Associated Press)

Somalia’s new leader survives terrorist attack

By Abdi Guled - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2012 file photo, Nasteho Hassan Mohyadin, 3, and her mother Farhid Ali Mohamed sit outside their small makeshift tent in a camp for those displaced by last year's famine or by conflict, in Mogadishu, Somalia. A whistleblowing report by a former Somali government official says that while tens of thousands of its citizens were dying from famine, the U.N.-backed Somali government spent only $1 million on social services despite having $58 million in revenue. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Somali government funds misused

By Katharine Houreld - Associated Press

Somalis march through the streets of Mogadishu at a government-organized rally against the militant group al-Shabab on Wednesday. Many of the demonstrators were protesting the recent merger between al Qaeda and al-Shabab. (Associated Press)

Al Qaeda embrace of al-Shabab seen as driven by desperation

By Jason Straziuso - Associated Press

Millions in payments from Arab nations missing

By Katharine Houreld - Associated Press

Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed arrives in Entebbe, Uganda, for the 15th African Union summit. African leaders and U.S. officials called for stepped-up efforts in Somalia at the summit in Kampala, Uganda. (Associated Press)

AU, Somali forces at odds

By Max Delany and Malkhadir M. Muhumed - Associated Press