Somalia

The interior minister was injured in an IED attack in Mogadishu; his secretary was killed. Baidoa residents are protesting Shabaab’s decree banning khat. Hizbul Islam has begun to fracture due to disagreements within the group. Islamist leader Sheik Yusuf Inda™adde said Hizbul Islam leaders are making the mujahedeen fight for the leader’s personal gain.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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