Over the years the group has waged its war through bombings and gun assaults both on military and civilian targets like hotels and busy intersections in Mogadishu and across Somalia.
Al Shabaab has also carried out attacks in neighboring Kenya and Uganda as revenge for their military deployments in Somalia as part of a regional peace keeping mission. Somalia has been embroiled in violence since 1991, when clan warlords overthrew leader Mohamed Siad Barre and then turned on each other.
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