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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Al-Shabab militants kidnapped 14 crew members of an Iranian fishing boat Wednesday off the coast of Somalia, seizing them as their vessel washed ashore, Iranian state television and residents said. The extremists detained the fishermen after the vessel drifted into the militants' stronghold, Yasin Maalin, a resident of ...

Iran has condemned the deadly attack carried out by Somalia-based al-Shabab terrorists on a university in the eastern Kenyan town of Garissa. The Islamic Republic of Iran extends condolences to the Kenyan government and nation, especially to the bereaved families of the victims of the terrorist attack, said Irans Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh ...

Tehran, Dec 17, IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday that Africa is one of the victims of terrorism and extremism due to presence of terrorist networks such as al-Shabab, Buku Haram and al-Qaeda. Zarif made the remarks in a meeting with Kenyan new ambassador to Iran Ruqayyah Ahmed Subu. She presented copy of her credentials ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 19 (MNA) It is no longer possible to conceal the obvious. The West, in its attempts to remove Bashar al-Asad from power during the years of the war in Syria, has nurtured a force so sinister that its tentacles are now reaching to the Western capitals themselves. Al-Qaeda is at the peak of its influence in the Middle East. In Somalia,...

A Libyan man, who was kidnapped from Tripoli by US Special Forces, has been taken to the United States to "face trial." Anas al-Libi, who was captured on October 5 in an operation denounced by the Libyan government, is expected to appear in court on Tuesday in New York. Anas al-Libi was transferred to law enforcement custody this weekend and was ...

[caption id="attachment_51976" align="alignright" width="210"] People leave Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall (September 21, 2013)[/caption] Kenyan security officials say gunmen are still holding hostages inside a shopping mall in Nairobi where they have already killed dozens of people. The Kenya National Disaster Operation Center said that the attackers ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The UN Security Council condemned "in the strongest possible terms" a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall Saturday claimed by Somalia's Al Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels. Fourteen hours after the attack began, Kenyan troops were still trying to secure the area and neutralize the fighters who killed 39 people and wounded 150 more....

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has strongly condemned Saturdays blatant attack on a Nairobi shopping mall that left dozens of people dead, vowing to hunt down and punish the perpetrators. The Kenyan president said in a televised address on Saturday night that at least 39 people had been killed, including close members of his own family, and more ...

[caption id="attachment_51936" align="alignright" width="210"] Kenyan troops surround Nairobis Westgate shopping mall where a militant attack left at least 39 people dead and 150 more injured on September 21, 2013.[/caption] Somalias al-Shabab fighters have claimed responsibility for Saturdays deadly attack in a shopping mall in the Kenyan capital ...