Along the fragile edge where Kenya meets Somalia, five security officers lost their lives Tuesday to a trap that had been waiting for them since July 21 — a reminder that patience, in the hands of those who wage asymmetric war, is itself a weapon. The attack in Mandera County's El-Raamo area unfolded in stages, each designed to compound the last, as al-Shabaab turned a supply route into an ambush and a rescue into a second catastrophe. It is the latest chapter in a conflict that has endured since Kenya crossed into Somalia in 2011, and it speaks to the grinding, unglamorous cost of holding a b
Five Kenyan security officers killed in coordinated al-Shabaab IED ambush in Mandera
Five security officers killed (four SOG members and one National Police Reservist) and several others injured in the coordinated IED and gunfire attack.