Al Shabaab kills seven soldiers in attack on military base
The assailants rammed the military base in the village of Hawadley with a suicide car bomb and then opened fire.
Suspected al-Shabaab militants in Mogadishu during a joint operation between Somali forces and AMISOM, May 2014.(photo credit: AMISOM PUBLIC INFORMATION/CC0/VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)