Kenya unleashes airstrikes against Islamic extremists ADVERTISING Kenya unleashes airstrikes against Islamic extremists NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan warplanes bombed militant camps in Somalia, officials said Monday, following a vow by President Uhuru Kenyatta to respond “in the fiercest way
Kenya unleashes airstrikes against Islamic extremists
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan warplanes bombed militant camps in Somalia, officials said Monday, following a vow by President Uhuru Kenyatta to respond “in the fiercest way possible” to a massacre of college students by al-Shabab extremists.
The al-Shabab camps were destroyed, but it was not possible to determine the number of casualties because of poor visibility, said Col. David Obonyo of the Kenyan military.
The Somalia-based militant group claimed responsibility for Thursday’s attack at Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya in which militants killed 148 people, most of them students.
Fighting intensifies in Yemen’s Aden
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Pitched fighting intensified Monday in Yemen’s second-largest city, Aden, as Shiite rebels and their allies waged their strongest push yet to seize control of the main bastion of supporters of their rival, the country’s embattled president.
The fierce fighting in the southern port city on the Arabian Sea raises doubts about the possibility of landing ground forces from a Saudi-led coalition backing President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to try to carve out an enclave to which Hadi, who fled the country two weeks ago, could return.
