Shabaab Retakes Fahfahdun After Seven Years, Reports on Capture of Town and Attack on Withdrawing Kenyan Forces

: Jihadist News; Created: March 5, 2019

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The Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement announced its recapture of Fahfahdun, a town in Somalia's Gedo region, and claimed attacking Kenyan forces as they withdrew, in addition to providing new details on the suicide raid at the Makka al-Mukarama Hotel in Mogadishu.

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