US confirms al-Shabab leader killed

The Pentagon says that the US military has carried out an air strike targeting a senior al-Shabab leader in Somalia.

The Pentagon confirms that a US drone strike in Somalia last Friday killed al-Shabab leader, Adan Garar, a suspect in the 2013 Kenya mall attack.

The US military has carried out air strikes in Somalia, reportedly targeting a convoy carrying the leader of militant group al-Shabab. Here is the story in 15 seconds

The Kenyan president says "we will not flinch" in the war against Islamist group al-Shabab after a massacre near the Somali border in which 36 were killed.

Somali officials say an intelligence chief from the al-Shabab Islamist group was among those killed by a US air strike on Monday.

Joan Kagezi, the top Ugandan state prosecutor in the trial of 13 men suspected of a deadly al-Shabab bomb attack, is shot dead in Kampala.

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The US military was hunting for the jihadist, but it has not yet commented on reports of his death.

Nigeria's main pro-Iranian Shia Muslim sect, the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, says its leader's wife has been killed in clashes with the military.