{"id":2498,"date":"2017-08-03T20:38:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T20:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2017-08-04T20:51:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T20:51:49","slug":"al-shabab-takfiri-group-seizes-town-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/al-shabab-takfiri-group-seizes-town-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Shabab Takfiri group \u2018seizes town in Somalia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The town of Leego, which lies about 130 km to the northwest of the capital, Mogadishu, is in Somalia\u2019s lower Shabelle region, where al-Shabab last week killed at least 12 peacekeepers in one of the deadliest attacks on AMISOM.<\/p>\n<p>Farah Ahmed, a resident of Leego, told Reuters AMISOM and Somali military forces had pulled out of the town early on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat same minute, al-Shabab entered to control the town&#8230; The town is now calm and al-Shabab fighters are in every part of the town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear why the military and AMISOM had withdrawn from Leego.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab is fighting to topple Somalia\u2019s Western-backed central government.<\/p>\n<p>The group was ejected from Mogadishu in 2011 and has since been chased from most of its other strongholds across the country.<\/p>\n<p>But it remains a formidable threat, with its militants frequently carrying out bombings against both civilian and military targets in Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/08\/04\/530678\/Somalia-Leego-takeover-alShabab\">\u2192 Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The town of Leego, which lies about 130 km to the northwest of the capital, Mogadishu, is in Somalia\u2019s lower Shabelle region, where al-Shabab last week killed at least 12 peacekeepers in one of the deadliest attacks on AMISOM. Farah Ahmed, a resident of Leego, told Reuters AMISOM and Somali military forces had pulled out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[166,1,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanitarian","category-other","category-somalia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}