The United States military said it killed four "terrorists" in airstrikes against the Al-Shabaab militant group in Somalia on Sunday, a day after the country's deadliest attack in two years. US Africa Command (AFRICOM) conducted three airstrikes in two locations in the conflict-hit east African nation on Sunday targeting Al-Shabaab militants, it said in a statement. "These precision airstrikes targeted Al-Shabaab militants responsible for terrorist acts against innocent Somali citizens ...
![An armed Iraqi holds his rifle, as he looks towards a burnt out lorry seen at the side of the main highway leading west out of the capital Baghdad to the city of Fallujah, in Anbar province, on January 5, 2014. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6281893.jpg?itok=IENNaC4V "An armed Iraqi holds his rifle, as he looks towards a burnt out lorry seen at the side of the main highway leading west out of the capital Baghdad to the city of Fallujah, in Anbar province, on January 5, 2014. [AFP]")
![Clashes between moderate Syrian rebel groups and the al-Qaeda-linked ISIL shifts to a new province on the border with Turkey. [Al-Arabiya]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/fd6bc1a4-c22f-4149-8dc4-29dc80e91ef9_16x9_788x442.jpg?itok=x4Ay_JYN "Clashes between moderate Syrian rebel groups and the al-Qaeda-linked ISIL shifts to a new province on the border with Turkey. [Al-Arabiya]")
![Armed men roam a street in the western, mainly Sunni Muslim city of Ramadi, the capital of the Anbar province, on January 4, 2014, as parts of Ramadi and the city of Fallujah. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/460527941.jpg?itok=D-_Cro0A "Armed men roam a street in the western, mainly Sunni Muslim city of Ramadi, the capital of the Anbar province, on January 4, 2014, as parts of Ramadi and the city of Fallujah. [Getty Images]")
![People carry one of the two bodies during the funeral of Malak Zahwa and her step-mother Iman Hijazi, who both died in a car bomb that targeted a Beirut's suburb the day before on January 3, 2014. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/460342937.jpg?itok=noAhRsjZ "People carry one of the two bodies during the funeral of Malak Zahwa and her step-mother Iman Hijazi, who both died in a car bomb that targeted a Beirut's suburb the day before on January 3, 2014. [Getty Images]")
![A member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) speaks into a microphone urging people to join their fight against the regime, in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on November 13, 2013. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/187947514_1.jpg?itok=aTFOzN3B "A member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) speaks into a microphone urging people to join their fight against the regime, in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on November 13, 2013. [Getty Images]")
![Majid al-Majid, the suspected head of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades which claimed responsibility for the Iranian embassy bombing in Beirut, was detained in Lebanon. [Al-Arabiya]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/hjfhgdfgf.jpg?itok=a9czww2v "Majid al-Majid, the suspected head of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades which claimed responsibility for the Iranian embassy bombing in Beirut, was detained in Lebanon. [Al-Arabiya]")
