”al-Shabab suffered a crushing defeat with approximately 120 terrorists neutralized, over 100 wounded, dozens more captured.

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GARISSA, Kenya -- Somalia's Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab on Saturday warned of more attacks in Kenya like the assault on Garissa University College in which 148 people were killed.

Zarate points to al-Shabaab's probable "access to westerners" as a major concern, citing reports of Americans, Australians and other Western Europeans who have been lured by jihadist ideologies.

Al Shabaab insurgents have seized the town of Tardo in Somalia's central Hiiran region and are pressing on with an advance that has already displaced thousands, a military official said.

Al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s brutal Somali affiliate, has claimed credit for the attack by multiple gunmen at an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya that has already killed at least 59 people.

"Operationally, Al Shabaab lies well beyond most extant large elephant populations so it is difficult to see how they could possibly sustain ivory trade on the scale that EAL claim," said Milliken.