Taliban now coming to a guerilla war theatre near you
A hardline Islamist militant at a checkpoint in southern Mogadishu’s Tarbunka neighbourhood on June 18. Insurgents killed Somalia’s security minister and at least 24 other people on Thursday in the deadliest suicide bomb attack yet in the Horn of Africa nation. Picture: Reuters/Feisal Omar
Last month, several hundred jihadis came to link up with Al Shabaab’s latest offensive, and now the Taliban are reportedly flocking to Somalia en masse.
Waging insurgency in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s tribal territories is not what it used to be. Pakistan’s military has turned against their Deobandi protégés.
