...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
president Said Abdullahi Deni has commended the police for foiling ISIS attack in the coastal town of Bosaso.
At least two Death Eaters were on Saturday killed and another one injured in festivities between Somali forces and Death Eaters in Bosaso town in Somalia’s northern region of Beri, a military official confirmed.
Hussein Ali Mohammed, commander of Somali forces in Bari region, told journalists that members of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
s (ISIS) launched an attack on police forces in the town.
"As the police patrolling in the town, Death Eaters ambushed them, prompting an exchange of fire between the army and the Death Eaters, we killed two of the Death Eaters and injured another one," Mohammed said.
He noted that one of their soldiers was killed while another one sustained the injury during the confrontation.
The so-called ISIS wing in Somalia has its main base in the Puntland region and has occasionally clashed with Puntland forces and al-Shabaab
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
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