Al-Shabaab (militant group)

Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, HSM; (Arabic: حركة الشباب المجاهدين‎, lit. 'Ḥarakat ash-Shabāb al-Mujāhidīn', Somali: Xarakada Mujaahidiinta Alshabaab, lit. 'Mujahideen Youth Movement' or 'Movement of Striving Youth') more commonly known as al-Shabaab, is a terrorist, jihadist fundamentalist group based in East Africa and Yemen. In early August 2011, the Transitional Federal Government under Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and their AMISOM allies managed to capture all of Mogadishu from the al-Shabaab militants.

Al-Shabaab (militant group)

Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, HSM; (Arabic: حركة الشباب المجاهدين‎, lit. 'Ḥarakat ash-Shabāb al-Mujāhidīn', Somali: Xarakada Mujaahidiinta Alshabaab, lit. 'Mujahideen Youth Movement' or 'Movement of Striving Youth') more commonly known as al-Shabaab, is a terrorist, jihadist fundamentalist group based in East Africa and Yemen. In early August 2011, the Transitional Federal Government under Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and their AMISOM allies managed to capture all of Mogadishu from the al-Shabaab militants.