Al-Qaeda-Linked Militants’ Rising Attacks Leave Kenya Dazed
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More than two years after Kenya sent troops to neighboring Somalia to fight al-Qaeda-linked militants, it’s now battling to contain intensifying attacks by suspected Islamist insurgents on its home soil.
Bombings that struck the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and the coastal town of Mombasa this month were followed by a threat by the al-Shabaab group last week to take its war to Kenya and Uganda because of their military presence in Somalia.