Somalia Death

The deaths of two US Navy SEALs during an operation earlier this year to seize Iranian weapons bound for Yemen's Huthi rebels were "preventable," an investigation into the incident found.

Several countries have banned homosexuality, with many of them having the death penalty for same-sex relations.

Despite a volley of attacks from the White House, death threats and a rally of supporters of US President Donald Trump chanting that she return to Somalia, Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar has remained persistent in her fight against continuous racist attacks.

More than 300 people were killed by twin bomb explosions in Mogadishu, an official said on Monday, as locals packed hospitals in search of friends and relatives caught by Somalia's deadliest attack in a decade.

The death count from Saturday's truck bombing in a shopping district in the Somali capital Mogadishu surged to at least 137 with 300 people injured, police said on Sunday.

A suicide car bomb and gun attack in the Somali town of Afgoye on Tuesday killed 11 people, including government employees, an official said, raising the initial death toll from four.

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh today took a jibe at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for calling Kerala "God's own country" after he compared it to "impoverished Somalia" in May. The Prime Minister had unfavourably compared Kerala with the African nation by calling attention to the high child death ratio among Scheduled Tribes.

Somalia's Shabaab terrorists have confirmed the death of a commander suspected of organising the 2015 attack on Kenya's Garissa University that left 148 people dead.

Congress on Friday urged the Election Commission to prohibit Prime Minister Narendra Modi from campaigning in Kerala for Assembly elections for his remarks comparing child death ratio in the state with that of Somalia, saying he has "distorted facts" which amounted to violation of the model code.

Britain's most wanted female terrorist, dubbed the 'White Widow', has masterminded over 400 deaths including last month's slaughter of 148 people at a university in Kenya, media reports said today.

The death toll in an assault by Somali militants on a Kenyan university is likely to climb above 147, a government source and media said on today, as anger grew among local residents over what they say was a government failure to prevent bloodshed.

A hotel siege by al Shabaab militants in the Somali capital has ended and the final death toll from the attack stands at 14, a senior government official said today.

The death toll from an attack by Islamist militants on a hotel in the Somali capital rose to at least 15, police said as fighting continued into early today, with loud explosions heard overnight.

Somalia today confirmed the death of Al Shabaab commander Yusuf Dheeq in a US drone strike south of Mogadishu last week.

The United States carried out a drone strike in Somalia against a senior leader of militant group Al Shabaab, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, adding his death would represent a major blow to a group already losing ground in the country.

The deaths of two US Navy SEALs during an operation earlier this year to seize Iranian weapons bound for Yemen's Huthi rebels were "preventable," an investigation into the incident found.

Several countries have banned homosexuality, with many of them having the death penalty for same-sex relations.

Despite a volley of attacks from the White House, death threats and a rally of supporters of US President Donald Trump chanting that she return to Somalia, Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar has remained persistent in her fight against continuous racist attacks.

More than 300 people were killed by twin bomb explosions in Mogadishu, an official said on Monday, as locals packed hospitals in search of friends and relatives caught by Somalia's deadliest attack in a decade.

The death count from Saturday's truck bombing in a shopping district in the Somali capital Mogadishu surged to at least 137 with 300 people injured, police said on Sunday.

A suicide car bomb and gun attack in the Somali town of Afgoye on Tuesday killed 11 people, including government employees, an official said, raising the initial death toll from four.

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh today took a jibe at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for calling Kerala "God's own country" after he compared it to "impoverished Somalia" in May. The Prime Minister had unfavourably compared Kerala with the African nation by calling attention to the high child death ratio among Scheduled Tribes.

Somalia's Shabaab terrorists have confirmed the death of a commander suspected of organising the 2015 attack on Kenya's Garissa University that left 148 people dead.

Congress on Friday urged the Election Commission to prohibit Prime Minister Narendra Modi from campaigning in Kerala for Assembly elections for his remarks comparing child death ratio in the state with that of Somalia, saying he has "distorted facts" which amounted to violation of the model code.

Britain's most wanted female terrorist, dubbed the 'White Widow', has masterminded over 400 deaths including last month's slaughter of 148 people at a university in Kenya, media reports said today.

The death toll in an assault by Somali militants on a Kenyan university is likely to climb above 147, a government source and media said on today, as anger grew among local residents over what they say was a government failure to prevent bloodshed.

A hotel siege by al Shabaab militants in the Somali capital has ended and the final death toll from the attack stands at 14, a senior government official said today.

The death toll from an attack by Islamist militants on a hotel in the Somali capital rose to at least 15, police said as fighting continued into early today, with loud explosions heard overnight.

Somalia today confirmed the death of Al Shabaab commander Yusuf Dheeq in a US drone strike south of Mogadishu last week.

The United States carried out a drone strike in Somalia against a senior leader of militant group Al Shabaab, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, adding his death would represent a major blow to a group already losing ground in the country.