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Esper: priority to defend US people and interests
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says following the airstrike that killed a top Iran general, "our priorities remain first, the safety and security of American personnel and our partners."
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Tear gas fired during protest over lack of security following bus killings
Police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of Kenyans who were demonstrating in the centre of the capital Nairobi on Tuesday, demanding that the government do more to increase security.
The demonstration came three days after Somali...
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President says no let up in fight against militants, quarry bodies flown to capital
The bodies of 36 non-Muslim quarry workers killed by Islamic extremists in northern Kenya were on Tuesday airlifted to the country's capital, Nairobi.
The killings happened in Mandera County near the border with Somalia early on Tuesday...
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4:3 Investigators at scene of attack, bus taken to police station
Militants in Kenya who killed 28 passengers after hijacking a bus were trying to drive to the Somali border when they got stuck on a mud road, local police said on Sunday.
Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the bus attack, in which...
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Family members receive counselling after relatives killed in Al-Shabab attack
The victims of a bus attack in Kenya were being identified by their relatives in Nairobi on Sunday.
Red Cross personnel were on hand to counsel the families of some of the 28 victims of Saturday's attack, as they left Chiromo Funeral...
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Survivor of attack that killed 36 claims al-Shabab cut throats after running out of bullets
A survivor of an al-Shabab attack that killed 36 people said on Tuesday that militants started cutting people's throats because they had run out of bullets.
Stanley Kibuchi described what happened near the Kenyan town of Mandera where...
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Grief stricken relatives identify bodies of loved ones klilled in al-Shabab attack
Relatives of 36 men, who were killed in an attack in northern Kenya, on Wednesday identified the bodies of their relatives at the City Mortuary in Nairobi.
Some of the grieving relatives were helped by Red Cross personnel after...
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Families wait for bodies of dead and survivors after Al-Shabab attack
Relatives and Red Cross personnel waited at an airport in Nairobi to receive the bodies of those killed in an attack by Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels.
According to police, Al-Shabab, attacked a bus in northern Kenya at dawn on...
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Relatives distraught as they identify victims of al-Shabab attack, reaction
Grieving relatives on Monday continued to identify the 28 victims who were killed in a bus attack in northern Kenya over the weekend.
Relatives consoled each other outside the Chiromo Funeral Parlour in Nairobi as the identification...
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4:3 Families flee to Air Force base, fearful of further attacks by al-Shabab militants
Kenyans started fleeing from the northern town of Mandera on Tuesday after 36 non-Muslim workers were killed by Islamic extremists at a quarry in the area.
A large queue of people seeking refuge formed outside an air force base in the...
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Suicide bomber kills at least four in attack on elite military troops in capital
A suicide car bomber blew himself up near a moving convoy of Somalia's US-trained elite forces in Mogadishu, killing at least four people, a Somali police officer said on Sunday.
Somali militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for...
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Somalia's first ever cash machine opens for business in Mogadishu
Somalia's first ever cash machine (ATM) has opened for business in Mogadishu.
The facility, which has been installed by Salama Somali Bank, is seen as a sign of significant development in the long-troubled country.
Taking cash out of a...
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4:3 Residents take refuge at military airbase fearful of militant attacks
Residents of a Kenyan city attacked by militants were visited by a high-level government official on Tuesday, at the military airforce base where they have taken shelter.
Hundreds of mostly Christian residents fled their homes in Mandera...
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Teachers rally over security fears in north
Hundreds of teachers held a demonstration outside the Kenyan parliament on Tuesday demanding that the government transfer them to schools in safer regions, following attacks by Islamic extremists.
The protesting teachers were from Wajir,...
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Kenya - Bodies of those killed in bus attack flown to capital / Relatives distraught as they identify victims of al-Shabab attack / Outside the parliament building riot police arrested a hand full of protestors who tried to stage a sit in chanting occupy parliament." "
Bodies of those killed in bus attack flown to capital; STILL of scene of attack
Nairobi, Kenya - 22 November, 2014
1. People gathered outside airport
2. police escort for two trucks carrying the bodies of several victims from the...
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Car bomb in Somalia's capital kills at least 5
A car bomb blast near a police station in Somalia's capital on Sunday killed at least five people and wounded at least 13 others, police said.
The explosion shattered a month of relative calm in Mogadishu, often a target...
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Somalia official says 10 civilians killed in joint raid
Ten civilians, including a child, are dead after a raid by foreign and Somali forces on a farm in southern Somalia, a deputy governor said Friday as officials displayed victims' bloodied bodies in the capital.
The farmers...
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At least two killed in Mogadishu bombing
At least two people were killed in an apparent car bombing on a major street in Somalia's capital late on Friday.
Police said two pedestrians were killed in the blast on Maka Almukarramah road in Mogadishu and five other...
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Somalia police say car bomb blast kills 5 in capital
A car bomb explosion in Somalia's capital late on Thursday killed at least five people, police said.
The blast happened by a car parked outside a restaurant in Mogadishu's Hamarweyne district and killed mostly civilians,...
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Somalis pray at site of bomb attack that killed more than 300
Thousands of anguished Somalis gathered to pray on Friday at the site of the country's deadliest attack, while the US military said it had resumed its fight against extremist group al-Shabab with a drone strike.
Long lines...
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Government official puts Somalia death toll at more than 300
Somali officials said on Monday that the death toll from Saturday's deadly truck bombing was now over 300.
Scores of people are still missing since the attack in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, raising fears that the death...
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Hundreds Dead in Attack in Somalia's Capital
The death toll from the bomb blast in Somalia's capital rose to 231 on Sunday, making it the deadliest single attack ever in the Horn of Africa nation.
Officials feared the toll would continue to climb from Saturday's truck...
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Bodies recovered after massive blast in Somali capital
The gruesome task of recovering the bodies of victims continued in Somalia's capital on Saturday, hours after at least 20 people were killed in a huge explosion from a truck bomb.
Residents described the blast as the most...
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Troops, scent dogs, at scene of Somalia's most deadly bombing
The death toll from the bomb blast in Somalia's capital rose to 231 on Sunday, making it the deadliest single attack ever in the Horn of Africa nation.
Officials feared the toll would continue to climb from Saturday's truck...