On 5 December 2012, al-Shabaab (AS) forces in Puntland’s Galgala mountains carried out two attacks on Puntland Security Forces (PSF) in the area. Coming down from its mountain hideouts west of Galgala town, AS attacked a PSF outpost in Sugure, located… Read More ›

Puntland
Al-Shabaab’s Changing State in Somalia
What began as a plan in July 2011 to push al-Shabaab from its bases in the capital Mogadishu turned quickly into a larger scale operation–with the help of Kenyan and Ethiopian forces and proxy militias–to force al-Shabaab out of all… Read More ›