“Western forces” are reported to have launched a pre-dawn raid on an al-Shabab base at Barawe in southern Somalia.
12 bombs have exploded across the Iraqi capital of Baghdad over the last two days, killing at least 82 people and leaving scores more injured.
Interpol have issued a “red notice” for the arrest of UK national Samantha Lewthwaite at the request of Kenyan authorities over the recent terror attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi.
The UK Foreign Office has confirmed that a British national has been detained in Nairobi, Kenya, with a numbe rof reports that the arrest is related to the terror attack in the Westgate mall.
Kenyan security services have said that they are now in control of the situation at the Westgate mall in Nairobi, after a siege of more than two days has left at least 62 people dead and more than 170 injured.