article_snippet: However, Islamic extremist group Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility.
article_snippet: Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab has issued a statement taking responsibility for the blitz. '
article_snippet: Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab are behind the attack, and fighting is still going on inside,' the group's military spokesman Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab said.
article_snippet: Al Qaeda-linked group Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab regularly carries out attacks in the Somali capital in a bid to unseat the country's Western-backed government .
article_snippet: Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab routinely carries out suicide bombings, drive-by shootings and other attacks in Mogadishu, the seat of Somalia's Western-backed government.
article_snippet: Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab was pushed out of the Somali capital by African peacekeeping forces, but have waged a series of gun and grenade attacks, looking to overthrow the country's Western-backed government and impose the country's Western-backed government strict version of sharia law on the country.
article_snippet: An offensive launched last year by African Union forces along with militants has driven militants out of militants strongholds in central and southern Somalia, while a series of U.S. drone strikes have killed some of Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab top leaders.
article_snippet: Despite the military campaign, Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab has continued to strike back with often devastating effect using hit-and-run bomb and gun attacks in the capital Mogadishu and other towns.
article_snippet: Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab has also struck out at countries supporting the African Union mission.
highlights_snippet: Somalia's al Qaeda-linked group has claimed responsibility for the attack .
  