al shabaan oops sorry al shabaab ivi ina maan gani kwa nyie mjuao lugha ya kiarabu?
Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (
HSM) (
Arabic: حركة الشباب المجاهدين‎;
Ḥarakat ash-Shabāb al-Mujāhidīn,
Mujahideen Youth Movement or
"Movement of Striving Youth"), more commonly known as
al-Shabaab (
Arabic: الشباب‎,
"The Youth", "The Boys" or
"The Lads") is a terrorist group of militants
fighting to overthrow the government of
Somalia. As of 2011, the group controls large swathes of the southern parts of Somalia,[SUP]
[5][/SUP] where it is said to have imposed its own strict form of
Sharia law.[SUP]
[6][/SUP] Al-Shabaab's troop strength as of May 2011 is estimated at 14,426 militants.[SUP]
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The group is an off-shoot of the
Islamic Courts Union, which splintered into several smaller organizations after its removal from power by Ethiopian forces in 2006.[SUP]
[7][/SUP] It describes itself as waging
jihad against "enemies of Islam", and is engaged in combat against the Somali
Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the
African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM). Al-Shabaab members, alleging ulterior motives on the part of foreign organizations, have also reportedly intimidated, kidnapped and killed aid workers, leading to a suspension of humanitarian operations and an exodus of relief agents.[SUP]
[8][/SUP] The group has been designated a
terrorist organization by several western governments and security services.[SUP]
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[11][/SUP] It has also been described in
The New Yorker as having "ties to
Al Qaeda,"[SUP]
[6][/SUP] which its leaders denied until early 2010.[SUP]
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In early August 2005, the TFG's troops and their AMISOM allies reportedly managed to capture all of Mogadishu from the Al-Shabaab militants.[SUP]
[5][/SUP] An ideological rift within Al-Shabaab's leadership also emerged in response to pressure from the recent drought and the assassination of top officials in the organization.[SUP]
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