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The article reports that armed gunmen from the al-Shabaab terrorist group killed at least 147 people in an assault on Garissa University College in Kenya. Al-Shabaab said the attack was in response to Kenya's military intervention against it in Somalia. Kenya's Interior Ministry said one suspect was in custody and identified Mohamed Mohamud as a person being sought in connection with the incident.

The article reports that six people were killed after Islamist Somali militant al-Shabaab blew up a minibus carrying United Nations Children's Fund employees from their apartments to their office in Puntland, Somalia on April 20, 2015.

The article reports that at least 147 students at Garissa University College in Kenya were killed after militants crashed into the campus and killed both Muslims and Christians, which comes a year after the country saw 67 people dead in a shopping mall massacre.

This section offers world news briefs as of December 31, 2014 including the decision of the Japanese government to reduce corporate taxes beginning April 2015 and the killing of Abdishakur Tahlil, the intelligence chief of Islamist militant group al-Shabaab, by a U.S. airstrike in Somalia.

The article reports on the arrest of Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi, a top official from Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group, in December 2014.

The article reports on the 2014 attack launched by Somali militant group al-Shabaab on a quarry located in northern Kenya which resulted to the death of 36 individuals.

The article reports that a suicide bomber of the jihadist terrorist group al-Shabaab hit a group of vehicles of African Union peacekeepers in Somalia and killed at least 12 people in an alleged retaliation for the U.S.'s airstrike that killed their leader Ahmed Abdi Godane.

The article discusses Ahmed Abdi Godane, the reported commander of the al-Shabaab terrorist group based in Somalia who is one of several people that were allegedly killed as a result of a U.S.-launched drone aircraft attack in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia.

The article discusses al-Shabaab militant group spokesman Abu Mohamed's reported confirmation that the Somali organization's leader Ahmed Abdi Godane was traveling in a three-vehicle convoy that was apparently hit by a U.S. airstrike, focusing on the alleged uncertainty regarding Godane's health.

The article reports that the U.S. government conducted an airstrike in Dhay Tubaako, Somalia after intelligence reported the presence of Ahmed Abdi Godane, the leader of the militant group al-Shabaab aligned with the terrorist group al-Qaeda, and cites that Godane's death has not been confirmed.

The article reports that the jihadist militant group Al-Shabaab attacked Somalian President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's palace on July 8, 2014.

The article presents world news briefs as of February 22, 2014, including the Basque separatist group ETA scrapping a small number of its explosives and firearms, the detonation of a car bomb by Islamic insurgents outside of Somalia's presidential palace, and an investigation of the vandalism of books in public libraries in Tokyo, Japan.

The article presents news briefs on several topics including an attack by suspected Islamic extremists at a Christian church service in Nigeria that killed at least 99 people, the death of militant Ahmed Abdikadir Amo Iskudhuq in Somalia, and a demonstration in Cambodia at which several people were injured when police broke it up.

The article discusses the U.S. Navy SEALS commando group and its reported failure to capture its intended target from the al-Shabaab Islamist militant group during a raid in Baware, Somalia in 2013, focusing on Kenyan military intelligence and reported dominance of the al-Shabaab group in Somalia.