A suicide bomber set off the explosion that tore a hole in an airliner flying out of Somalia on Feb. 2, according to local authorities investigating the case.
The Pentagon on Friday (Sept. 5) confirmed that the leader of al-Shabab, an al-Qaida-linked organization in Africa, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Somalia this week.
A suicide bomb attack in a restaurant in the central Somali town of Beledweyne killed at least 15 and injured an unknown number of people on Saturday. In Somalia, Christians remain marginalized, threatened and criminalized.
Two weeks after Somalia-based Islamic extremists attacked a Nairobi shopping mall, Kenya saw another pocket of its territory turned into a battle zone.
Islamic extremists suspected to be rebel al Shabaab militants have kidnapped a Christian mother of two young children in Somalia and threatened her husband because of their faith.
During the first half of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, the Somali militant group al Shabaab carried out more than 100 attacks mostly in and around the capital Mogadishu.
Islamic extremists from the rebel group al Shabaab in Somalia earlier this month publicly shot a young man to death after identifying him as a Christian.