Al-Shabaab took responsibility for the attack in Somalia's capital, three UAE soldiers were killed

The terrorist group Al-Shabaab, which is associated with Al-Qaeda, has taken credit for the attack on a military base in Somalia's capital city of Mogadishu on Saturday. The attack claimed the lives of three Emirati soldiers and a Bahraini officer who was undergoing military training. It was impossible to verify the exact number of soldiers lost on Sunday, though.

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the president of Somalia, sent the United Arab Emirates (UAE) condolences on the soldiers' deaths. Al-Shabaab took responsibility for the attack and said that it killed multiple members of the Emirati military. Because the government of Somalia is fighting al-Shabaab to impose Islamic Sharia law, the UAE has come under attack. Before this, Al-Shabaab also conducted attacks on Kenya, a neighbour, as a result of giving Somalia military personnel and supplies.

Anwar Gargash, a senior UAE diplomat, said in an X-Post that no treacherous act can prevent us from combating extremism and terrorism in all of its manifestations and offered his condolences to the families of the deceased. Al-Shabaab means 'youth' in Arabic and this Sunni Islamic extremist group was born out of the chaos created by the 1991 civil war.