This article and radio report by Ryan Katz for The World originally appeared on PRI.org on March 10, 2015, and is republished as part of a content-sharing agreement. Abdi Awali has a routine he’s followed every month for years: He heads to a money-transfer business by his house in Minneapolis, gives the teller some basic information and slides $100 through a…

In what is starting to seem like a slow, steady drip of ‘foreign fighter’ cases, six U.S. residents of Bosnian origin were arrested in early February and charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.To send al-Qaeda, its Syrian off-shoot the al-Nusra Front, and the ISIS a few thousand dollars and some hardware that…

NAIROBI: The Leader of Majority in National Assembly Adan Duale has controversially said Kenya is ready to negotiate with Somalia’s terrorist group Al-Shabaab for the sake of peace. Duale said they are ready to send elders and religious leaders to lead in the negotiations. “If you want us to send you elders, and religious leaders…

Shabaab kills senior Somali military officer in an attack. The group claimed responsibility through affiliated media outlets Al-Shabaab members raided the house of a senior Somali military officer in Gedo overnight, killing him and five family members. “I can confirm that officer Iman Adow and members of his family were killed in the night attack…

March 15, 2015: Defectors and captured al Shabaab members report that that group’s leaders are dismayed that other Islamic terror groups like ISIL (al Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant) in Syria and Boko Haram in Nigeria are crowding al Shabaab out of the media. Al Shabaab needs that media attention for fund raising and…

United States forces targeted a leader of the Al Shabaab militant group in an operation in southern Somalia this week, the Pentagon said late on Friday, a day after villagers reported a drone strike killed three members of the Al Qaeda-affiliated organisation. US officials declined to name the target of the strike, but CBS News…