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Al-Shabaab (militant group)
Somalia-based Islamist movement
For other uses of "Al-Shabaab", see Al-Shabab.
Not to be confused with Al-Shabaab (Mozambique).
Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen,[note 1] commonly known as al-Shabaab,[note 2] is a transnational Salafi Jihadist[36][37] military and political organization based in Somalia and active elsewhere in East Africa. It is actively involved in the ongoing Somali Civil War as an Islamist group, regularly invoking takfir to rationalize its terrorist attacks on Somali civilians and government forces.[11][12] Allied to the militantpan-Islamist organization al-Qaeda since 2012, it has also forged ties with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Formed in the mid-2000s as a youth militia within the wider military wing of the Islamic Courts Union, al-Shabaab came to prominence during the 2006–2009 Ethiopian invasion and occupation of Somalia, during which it presented itself as a vehicle for the waging of armed resistance against the occupying Ethiopian army. In subsequent years, it gained popular support from Somalis and became a dominant force in south and central Somalia, defending large swathes of territory by fighting against
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Map of Somalia
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Erlich, Haggai. "Index". Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa: Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010, pp. 211-224. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781588269874-011
Erlich, H. (2010). Index. In Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa: Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan (pp. 211-224). Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781588269874-011
Erlich, H. 2010. Index. Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa: Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan. Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers, pp. 211-224. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781588269874-011
Erlich, Haggai. "Index" In Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa: Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, 211-224. Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781588269874-011
Erlich H. Index. In: Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa: Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan. Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers; 2010. p.211-224. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781588269874-011
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