Islamic State – Somalia Province
Branch of Islamic State in Somalia
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| January 11 2025 | Puntland state launches 'Operation Hillaac', capturing numerous ISS bases in the mountains of Bari Region. |
| 2024 | ISS expanded its presence from Qandala, striking Al-Shabaab forces east of Bosaso and expanding west to the coastal town of Alula, covering approximately 100km. |
| October 2024 | AFRICOM commander US Gen. Michael Langley claimed in an interview that ISS had grown 'twofold' over the previous year. |
| January 25 2023 | US military operation kills senior IS leader Bilal al-Sudani and 10 other Islamic State in Somalia members in northern Somalia. |
| 2020 | Islamic State – Somalia Province (ISS) gradually increased the number of attacks and evicted al-Shabaab from the contested area around Dasaan in the Mudug region, while also suffering setbacks from Puntland Security Forces. |
| July 2020 | Puntland Security Forces, supported by the United States Armed Forces, launched an offensive against ISS south of Bosaso, reportedly inflicting heavy casualties on the Islamic State militants. |
| November 4 2019 | Islamic State in Somalia officially pledges allegiance to new IS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. |
| May 8 2019 | US Air Force bombs an ISS base in the Golis Mountains, reportedly killing 13 militants. |
| April 14 2019 | US Air Force airstrike kills ISS deputy Abdihakim Mohamed Ibrahim at Xiriiro, Bari region. |
| October 2018 | Al-Shabaab executes ISS deputy Mahad Maalin in Mogadishu, while ISS ambushes an al-Shabaab group near B'ir Mirali, reportedly killing 14 militants. |
| April 14 2018 | US Air Force airstrike kills ISS deputy Abdihakim Mohamed Ibrahim at Xiriiro, Bari region. |
| November 2017 | The United States launches its first airstrikes on ISS in Buqo Valley, east of Bosaso, attempting but failing to kill Mumin. |
| May 23 2017 | ISS carries out its first suicide bombing, targeting the Juba Hotel in Bosaso. The suicide bomber was stopped at a military checkpoint, killing five and wounding twelve. |
| February 8 2017 | ISS attacks the Village Hotel in Bosaso, resulting in a fierce shootout where at least four guards and two ISS fighters died. |
| October 26 2016 | ISS launches its first major operation by capturing the port town of Qandala, holding it until 3 December when Puntland Security Force launches a counter-offensive. |
| April 2016 | ISS sets up a temporary training camp named after Bashir Abu Numan, which Mumin blesses as the 'first camp of the Caliphate in Somalia'. |
| April 25 2016 | ISS carries out its first attack on government forces by detonating an IED against an AMISOM vehicle in Mogadishu. |
| October 2015 | Abdul Qadir Mumin pledges allegiance (bay'ah) to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State, causing a violent split within Puntland's al-Shabaab, with only 20 of 300 local fighters joining Mumin's group. |
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