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Islamic State in Somalia

Index Islamic State in Somalia

The Islamic State in Somalia (short: ISS) or Abnaa ul-Calipha is an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant-affiliated group that primarily operates in the mountainous areas of Puntland, though has also claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks throughout the rest of Somalia. [1]

59 relations: Abdul Qadir Mumin, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Afgooye, African Union, African Union Mission to Somalia, Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a, Al-Shabaab (militant group), Amaq News Agency, Animal husbandry, Bay'ah, Black Standard, Bosaso, Caliphate, Children in the military, CNN, Combating Terrorism Center, Daily Express, Galgala, Galgala campaign, Galmudug Security Force, Garowe Online, Gulf of Aden, Improvised explosive device, International Crisis Group, Iraq, Irish Examiner, ISIL territorial claims, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Yemen Province, List of terrorist incidents in March 2017, Long War Journal, Majeerteen, Matthew Bryden, Middle Juba, Mogadishu, Mohamed Said Atom, Mudug, National Intelligence and Security Agency, Persecution of Christians, Piracy off the coast of Somalia, Puntland, Puntland Dervish Force, Puntland Security Force, Qandala, Qandala campaign, Reuters, Salafi jihadism, Salafi movement, Somali Armed Forces, Somali Civil War (2009–present), ..., Somalia, Suicide attack, Syria, United Nations, United States, United States Department of State, United States Department of the Treasury, Voice of America, West Point, New York. Expand index (9 more) »

Abdul Qadir Mumin

‘Abd al-Qādir Mū‘min (born c. 1950s) is a Somali-born British citizen and the leader of the Islamic State in Somalia.

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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi (أبو بكر البغدادي; born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri إبراهيم عواد إبراهيم علي محمد البدري السامرائي in 1971) is the leader of the Salafi jihadist militant terrorist organisation known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),Rewards for Justice – Retrieved 25 January 2017 which controls territory in several countries.

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Afgooye

Afgooye (Afgooye, أفجويي) is a town in the southwestern Somalia Lower Shebelle (Shabellaha Hoose) region of Somalia.

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African Union

The African Union (AU) is a continental union consisting of all 55 countries on the African continent, extending slightly into Asia via the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.

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African Union Mission to Somalia

The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is an active, regional peacekeeping mission operated by the African Union with the approval of the United Nations in Somalia.

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Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a

Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a (ASWJ) (Ahlu Suna Waljamaaca) is a Somalia-based paramilitary group consisting of moderate Sufis opposed to radical Islamist groups such as Al-Shabaab.

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Al-Shabaab (militant group)

Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (HSM; حركة الشباب المجاهدين,; Xarakada Mujaahidiinta Alshabaab, lit. "Mujahideen Youth Movement" or "Movement of Striving Youth"), more commonly known as al-Shabaab (lit), is a jihadist fundamentalist group based in East Africa.

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Amaq News Agency

Amaq News Agency is a news outlet linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), It is often the "first point of publication for claims of responsibility by the group".

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Animal husbandry

Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, eggs, or other products.

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Bay'ah

Bayʿah (بَيْعَة, Pledge of allegiance"), in Islamic terminology, is an oath of allegiance to a leader.

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Black Standard

The Black Banner or Black Standard (الراية السوداء rāyat as-sawdāʾ, also known as راية العقاب. rāyat al-ʿuqāb "banner of the eagle" or simply as "the banner") is one of the flags flown by Muhammad in Islamic tradition.

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Bosaso

Bosaso (Boosaaso, بوساسو) is a city in the northeastern Bari province (gobol) of Somalia.

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Caliphate

A caliphate (خِلافة) is a state under the leadership of an Islamic steward with the title of caliph (خَليفة), a person considered a religious successor to the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a leader of the entire ummah (community).

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Children in the military

Children in the military are children (defined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child as persons under the age of 18) who are associated with military organisations, such as state armed forces and non-state armed groups.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Combating Terrorism Center

The Combating Terrorism Center is an academic institution at the United States Military Academy (USMA) in West Point, New York that provides education, research and policy analysis in the specialty areas of terrorism, counterterrorism, homeland security and internal conflict.

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Daily Express

The Daily Express is a daily national middle market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom.

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Galgala

Galgala is a growing town in Bari region of Somalia.

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Galgala campaign

The Galgala campaign was a military campaign autonomous Puntland region of Somalia, that took place periodically from the 8th August until the 1st October, 2014.

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Galmudug Security Force

The Galmudug Security Force (GSF) consists of the armed forces of the autonomous Galmudug region in central Somalia.

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Garowe Online

Garowe Online is an independently operated news agency based in Puntland, Somalia.

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Gulf of Aden

The Gulf of Aden, also known as the Gulf of Berbera, (خليج عدن,, Gacanka Berbera) is a gulf amidst Yemen to the north, the Arabian Sea and Guardafui Channel to the east, Somalia to the south, and Djibouti to the west.

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Improvised explosive device

An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action.

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International Crisis Group

The International Crisis Group (ICG; also simply known as the Crisis Group) is a transnational non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 1995 that carries out field research on violent conflict and advances policies to prevent, mitigate or resolve conflict.

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Iraq

Iraq (or; العراق; عێراق), officially known as the Republic of Iraq (جُمُهورية العِراق; کۆماری عێراق), is a country in Western Asia, bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest and Syria to the west.

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Irish Examiner

The Irish Examiner, formerly The Cork Examiner and then The Examiner, is an Irish national daily newspaper which primarily circulates in the Munster region surrounding its base in Cork, though it is available throughout the country.

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ISIL territorial claims

The core of the territory of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was from 2014 until November 2017 in Iraq and Syria, where the organization controlled significant swathes of urban, rural, and desert territory.

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), Islamic State (IS) and by its Arabic language acronym Daesh (داعش dāʿish), is a Salafi jihadist terrorist organisation and former unrecognised proto-state that follows a fundamentalist, Salafi/Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam.

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Yemen Province

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Yemen Province (الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام – ولاية اليَمَن, ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī 'l-ʿIrāq wa-sh-Shām – Wilayah al-Yaman), or ISIL-YP, is a branch of the militant Islamist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), active in Yemen.

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List of terrorist incidents in March 2017

This is a timeline of terrorist attacks which took place in March 2017, including attacks by violent non-state actors for political, religious, or ideological motives.

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Long War Journal

FDD's Long War Journal (LWJ) is an American news website, also described as a blog, which reports on the war on terror.

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Majeerteen

The Majeerteen (Majeerteen, ماجرتين, Muhammad Harti Amaleh Abdi Muhammad Abdirahman Jaberti; also spelled Majerteen, Macherten, Majertain, or Mijurtin) is a Somali clan.

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Matthew Bryden

Matthew Bryden is a Canadian political analyst.

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Middle Juba

Middle Juba (Jubbada Dhexe, جوبا الأوسط) is an administrative region (gobol) in southern Somalia.

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Mogadishu

Mogadishu (Muqdisho), known locally as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia.

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Mohamed Said Atom

Mohamed Said Atom (Sheekh Maxamed Sayid Atom, محمد سعيد اتوم), alternatively Sheikh Mohamed Said Atom, is a Somali arms-smuggler, faction leader and al-Shabaab commander.

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Mudug

Mudug (Mudug) is an administrative region (gobol) in north-central Somalia.

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National Intelligence and Security Agency

The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) (Hay'ada Sirdoonka iyo Nabadsugida Qaranka) is the national intelligence agency of the Federal Republic of Somalia is in-charge of secret service, intelligence and covert operations for the national interests of Somalia, The main objective of (NISA) is to collect the intelligence data through different means and to safeguard the national interests.

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Persecution of Christians

The persecution of Christians can be historically traced from the first century of the Christian era to the present day.

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Piracy off the coast of Somalia

Piracy off the coast of Somalia has been a threat to international shipping since the second phase of the Somali Civil War, around 2000, when foreign ships exploited the absence of an effective national coast guard by invading the fishing grounds and also dumping illegal waste that would further diminish the local catch.

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Puntland

Puntland (Puntlaand, أرض البنط), officially the Puntland State of Somalia (Dowladda Puntland ee Soomaaliya, بونتلاند دولة الصومال), is a region in northeastern Somalia.

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Puntland Dervish Force

The Puntland Dervish Force (Ciidamada Daraawiishta Puntland, أرض البنط بونتلاند فرقة الدراويش) is the official paramilitary division of the Puntland Security Force.

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Puntland Security Force

The Puntland Security Force (PSF) consists of the armed forces of the autonomous Puntland region in northeastern Somalia.

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Qandala

Qandala (also known as Candala, Andala, Bender Chor, Bandar Kor, Bender Kor or Taba Tege) is an ancient port town in the northeastern Bari province of Somalia.

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Qandala campaign

The Qandala campaign began when the Islamic State in Somalia (ISS) attacked and captured the major town of Qandala in Puntland on 26 October 2016.

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Reuters

Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Salafi jihadism

Salafi jihadism or jihadist-Salafism is a transnational religious-political ideology based on a belief in "physical" jihadism and the Salafi movement of returning to what adherents believe to be true Sunni Islam.

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Salafi movement

The Salafi movement or Salafist movement or Salafism is a reform branch or revivalist movement within Sunni Islam that developed in Egypt in the late 19th century as a response to European imperialism.

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Somali Armed Forces

The Somali National Armed Forces (SNAF) are the military forces of Somalia, officially known as the Federal Republic of Somalia.

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Somali Civil War (2009–present)

The 2009–present phase of the Somali Civil War is concentrated in southern Somalia.

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Somalia

Somalia (Soomaaliya; aṣ-Ṣūmāl), officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe Federal Republic of Somalia is the country's name per Article 1 of the.

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Suicide attack

A suicide attack is any violent attack in which the attacker expects their own death as a direct result of the method used to harm, damage or destroy the target.

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Syria

Syria (سوريا), officially known as the Syrian Arab Republic (الجمهورية العربية السورية), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), often referred to as the State Department, is the United States federal executive department that advises the President and represents the country in international affairs and foreign policy issues.

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United States Department of the Treasury

The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government.

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Voice of America

Voice of America (VOA) is a U.S. government-funded international radio broadcast source that serves as the United States federal government's official institution for non-military, external broadcasting.

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West Point, New York

West Point is the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States.

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Abnaa ul-Calipha, Al-Mutafaq Commercial Company, Liibaan Trading, Wilayat al Somal.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_in_Somalia

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