Nairobi mall attack: Al Shabaab burnt victims’ faces to conceal identities

Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 15:10

Al Shabaab terrorists, who killed at least 67 people in the Nairobi mall massacre, burned victims’ faces and cut off their hands in an attempt to conceal their identities.

Al Shabaab attacks Kenyan post near Somalia border

Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 14:40

Militant group Al Shabaab continued its operations even beyond Nairobi mall siege as it attacked a security post on Kenya’s border with Somalia on Thursday killing two police officers in the ambush.

Kenya siege: Probe begins into attack; al Shabaab threatens more strikes

Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 08:49

Assisted by FBI, Scotland Yard and spy agencies of Israel and Germany, Kenya has begun probe into invasion of a Nairobi mall that left at least 72 people dead, even as al Shabaab warned of more attacks.

Nairobi mall attack brings back memories of 26/11 strike

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 12:26

As she watches television coverage of a mall attack in distant Kenya, a Class X student here recalls her brush with death during the 26/11 terror attacks in the metropolis in 2008.

ICC refuses to postpone Kenyan President`s trial

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 12:07

The International Criminal Court on Tuesday denied a request to postpone Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta`s trial for crimes against humanity.

Kenya mall attack: As it happened

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 10:19

Al Shabaab, the militant group behind the four-day takeover of the Westgate mall in Nairobi, claimed on Wednesday that the Kenyan government forces used explosives in carrying out "a demolition" of the building, burying 137 hostages.

Death toll of Indians killed in Kenya attack rises to 3

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 15:36

The number of Indians killed in Westgate mall terror attack in Kenya has risen to three, with one more body identified as that of an Indian national.

Nairobi mall attack: ‘Will kill hostages if Kenya Army uses force’

Last Updated: Monday, September 23, 2013, 14:03

As Kenyan Army sought to step up the offensive against the militants holed up in the Westgate mall, the al Shabab has issued a threat saying that the mall hostage would be killed if force was used against the “mujahedeen”.

Kenya mall attack: Who is Samantha Lewthwaite, the `White Widow`?

Last Updated: Monday, September 23, 2013, 13:48

July 7, 2005, London`s Tube at King’s Cross station killed 26 people. Bomber Germaine Lindsay`s wife Samantha Lewthwaite, denied knowledge of the attack. She is the `White Widow` in Kenya mall attack.

Al-Shabab recruited Somali rebels based in US for Nairobi mall massacre

Last Updated: Monday, September 23, 2013, 13:16

The United States House Homeland Security Committee has claimed al Qaeda linked group, Al Shahab, had recruited 50 people from Somali American communities to launch the deadly attack on the upscale shopping mall in Kenya on Saturday.

Kenya terror attack: Indian killed as he couldn’t name Prophet Muhammad’s mother

Last Updated: Monday, September 23, 2013, 11:36

The attackers of Kenya’s Westgate mall who spoke in Swahili and targeted non-Muslims, killed an Indian only because he couldn’t tell what was the name of Prophet Muhammad’s mother.