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Westgate Mall attack plotter killed in drone strike
NAIROBI, Kenya — A U.S. drone strike in Somalia on Thursday is believed to have killed a senior member of the al-Shabab extremist group who allegedly helped plan the 2013...
Terrorist threat calls for attacks on American shopping malls
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson warned Sunday that Americans should be "particularly careful" shopping at malls this weekend following a specific terrorist threat. Terrorist group al-Shabaab released a video...
6 Islamist militants killed in US attack in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Al-Shabaab's top leader was traveling in one of two vehicles hit Monday night in a US military strike, a member of the Somali Islamic extremist group said Tuesday....
Boston Globe wins Pulitzer for Marathon bombing coverage
An award that usually is met with cheers and jubilation instead came with a moment of silence, as The Boston Globe won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for its...
4 Somalis charged with aiding Westgate mall siege
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan authorities have charged four Somali nationals with offenses related to September’s terrorist attack on Westgate Mall that killed 67 people. A court ordered the four men...
Kenyan soldiers busted for looting during mall siege
NAIROBI, Kenya — Two Kenyan soldiers were sacked for stealing items during the deadly siege last month of Nairobi's Westgate Mall, Kenya's military chief said Tuesday. Gen. Julius Karangi, chief...
White Widow wrote love poem to Osama
A blood-stirring ode to Osama bin Laden has been found on the computer of the White Widow - along with evidence of her weight loss worries and apparent desire for...
Kenya mall-terror fiend grew up in Norway
NAIROBI, Kenya — Quiet and respectful at the mosque as a boy, Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow later became angry and radicalized, people in the coastal town in Norway where he grew...
Uganda, US on alert for ‘Westgate-style’ mall attack
Uganda heightened its "terror" alert to maximum on Friday for the first time since bombings in 2010 that killed 79 people, given domestic and U.S. intelligence indications of a possibly...
Panic & terror in Kenya mall attack
Chilling video from the Kenya mall massacre shows the heavily armed attackers chatting on cell phones as they methodically gunned down terrified victims. Surveillance camera footage, obtained by CNN and...
Could the Kenya attack happen here? It did
After Islamic gunmen attacked the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, the collective reaction from the US media was to speculate whether such terror could happen here, as if a jihadist...
Norwegian investigated in Kenya mall attack
STOCKHOLM — Norwegian authorities say they are investigating a Norwegian citizen of Somali origin who is suspected of involvement in the terror attack on a mall in Kenya last month....
Kenya attack 'planned weeks in advance'
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's counterterrorism police unit released closed-circuit television footage Sunday that showed two men entering a local bank where they collected money and paid for a car used...
Navy SEALs fail in assault on Kenya attack terrorist
MOGADISHU, Somalia — In a stealthy seaside assault in Somalia and in a raid in Libya's capital, U.S. special forces on Saturday struck out against Islamic extremists who have carried...
Four Kenya attack suspects named
NAIROBI, Kenya — A military spokesman on Saturday confirmed the names of four men implicated in the attack on an upscale mall in Kenya's capital last month, an assault that...
Kenyan security forces suspected of looting siege mall
NAIROBI, Kenya — Jewelry cases smashed. Mobile phones ripped from displays. Cash registers emptied. Alcohol stocks plundered. For the second time in two months, poorly paid Kenyan security forces that...
39 missing as new images of Kenya siege released
NAIROBI, Kenya — More than three dozen people remain unaccounted for almost a week after the end of the four-day terrorist attack on Nairobi's Westgate Mall that killed at least...
An average girl became the 'White Widow'
She grew up middle-class in suburban Buckinghamshire, England, and was considered an average girl in every way. Her father, Allen, was a former British Army soldier-turned-lorry driver; her mother, Christine,...
Kenya had mall-attack warning
The Kenyan government came under fire Saturday amid accusations that officials ignored intelligence reports before the Nairobi mall bloodbath last week. A Sept. 13 report leaked to the country’s newspapers...