{"id":15915,"date":"2024-03-15T16:04:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T16:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=15915"},"modified":"2024-03-15T16:04:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T16:04:55","slug":"mogadishu-all-al-shabab-terrorists-killed-in-a-hotel-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/mogadishu-all-al-shabab-terrorists-killed-in-a-hotel-siege\/","title":{"rendered":"Mogadishu: All Al Shabab Terrorists &#8216;Killed&#8217; in a Hotel Siege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A siege by Al Shabab terrorists of a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu ended on Friday after more than 13 hours, a police officer has said.<br \/>\n&#8220;All the terrorist gunmen were killed, and the situation has returned to normal now, the security forces are carrying out a thorough clearance and investigations,&#8221; said the officer, Abdirahim Yusuf on Friday.<br \/>\nThe assault, for which Al Shabab claimed responsibility, began at around 9:45 pm [1845 GMT] on Thursday when gunmen stormed the SYL hotel in a hail of bullets.<br \/>\nThere were no immediate reports of casualties at the hotel, but witnesses described the attackers shooting indiscriminately.<br \/>\nAl Shabab has been waging an insurgency against the internationally backed federal government for more than 16 years and has often targeted hotels, which tend to host high-ranking Somali and foreign officials.<br \/>\nAlthough the group was driven out of the capital by an African Union force, it retains a strong presence in rural Somalia and regularly carry out attacks against political and civilian targets, including in Mogadishu.<br \/>\nThe beleaguered central government launched a major offensive against Al Shabab in August 2022, joining forces with local clan militias.<br \/>\nBut the offensive has suffered setbacks despite early gains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 A siege by Al Shabab terrorists of a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu ended on Friday after more than 13 hours, a police officer has said. &#8220;All the terrorist gunmen were killed, and the situation has returned to normal now, the security forces are carrying out a thorough clearance and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15917,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915\/revisions\/15917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}