CONFLICT● ELEVATED4d ago · Oct 9, 2026, 2:55 PM

Somalia claims to have killed another senior Shabaab leader

Long War Journal · sub saharan africa

Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency said that Bashir Ahmed Haji Nunow, the former head of Shabaab’s Amniyat wing and ringleader behind the worst terrorist attack in Somalia’s history, is dead. Shabaab has neither confirmed nor denied his death. The post Somalia claims to have killed another senior Shabaab leader appeared first on FDD's Long War Journal.

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