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President Obama addresses the nation from the Cross Hall in the White House. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

Text of Obama’s speech

By White House - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2008 file photo, armed al-shabab fighters on pickup trucks prepare to travel into the city, just outside Mogadishu, in Somalia. U.S. military forces targeted the Islamic extremist al-Shabab network in an operation Monday, Sept. 1, 2014 in Somalia, the Pentagon said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Somalia terror group al-Shabab names new leader after U.S. airstrike

Associated Press

FILE- In this Feb.17, 2011 file photo, hundreds of newly trained al-Shabab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area some 18 kilometers (12 miles) south of Mogadishu, Somalia. U.S. military forces targeted the Islamic extremist al-Shabab network in an operation Monday, Sept. 1, 2014 in Somalia, the Pentagon said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Pentagon working to confirm intended target among 6 militants killed in Somalia

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2008 file photo, armed al-shabab fighters on pickup trucks prepare to travel into the city, just outside Mogadishu, in Somalia. U.S. military forces targeted the Islamic extremist al-Shabab network in an operation Monday, Sept. 1, 2014 in Somalia, the Pentagon said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

6 militants killed in US Somalia strike

By ABDI GULED - Associated Press

In this photo taken Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014 and provided by the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) Monday, Sept. 1, 2014, African Union (AU) soldiers from Uganda rest in the town of Kurtunwarey in Somalia. Somali government and AU troops have been engaging al-Shabab militants as part of their military offensive dubbed "Indian Ocean" aiming to oust al-Shabab from its last major hideouts in the southern parts of the Horn of Africa nation. (AP Photo/AMISOM, Tobin Jones)

US military targets extremists in Somalia

Associated Press

This March 23, 2008 photo provided by the Hennepin County, Minn. Sheriff's Office shows Douglas McAuthur McCain. On Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014, a U.S. official said McCain, a U.S. citizen, is believed to have been killed in Syria and was there to fight alongside a terrorist group, most likely the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Hennepin County, Minn. Sheriff's Office)

Q-and-A on Westerners who join the fight in Syria

By AMY FORLITI - Associated Press

** FILE ** Al-Shabab fighters march with their weapons during military exercises on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, Feb. 11, 2011. (Associated Press)

2 American women charged with funneling money to al-Qaeda-linked group

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Feds: 2 Texas men arrested on terrorism charges

By Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

Residents barricade a road with burning tires and other roadblocks as they protest against the recent killings and what they claimed was the government's failure to provide them with enough security, in the village of Kibaoni just outside the town of Mpeketoni, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Somali border on the coast of Kenya Tuesday, June 17, 2014. (AP Photo)

Kenya president blames locals for deadly attacks

By Jason Straziuso - Associated Press

A man observes the remains of destroyed vehicles and buildings in the town of Mpeketoni, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Somali border on the coast of Kenya Monday, June 16, 2014. Dozens of Somali extremists wielding automatic weapons attacked the small Kenyan coastal town for hours, assaulting the police station, setting two hotels on fire, and spraying bullets into the street killing dozens, officials said Monday. (AP Photo)

Gunmen singled out non-Muslims in Kenya attack

By Tom Odula and Jason Straziuso - Associated Press

In this photo taken Sunday, March 30, 2014, a female Somali soldier talks on her walkie-talkie outside a police station in Mogadishu, Somalia. It’s unusual to see a female in the military in traditionally conservative Somali society where women's duties are generally at home and limited to family chores, but determined women are breaking down those barriers with about 1,500 females now in the military of 20,000, according to estimates. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Female soldiers join the army ranks in Somalia

By ABDI GULED - Associated Press

Mohamed Aden, a malnourished two-year-old boy, sits on his mother's lap at Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Much of Somalia has seen no or erratic rains in recent months and fighting between African Union forces and the Islamic extremists of al-Shabab is cutting off food shipments to many parts of the country and discouraging farmers from planting - as a result, 50,000 children are severely malnourished, says the aid community. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Hunger in Somalia: Familiar menace could return

By ABDI GULED and JASON STRAZIUSO - Associated Press

In this Twitter photo, first lady Michelle Obama pleads for the safe return of more than 200 girls kidnapped by terrorists in Nigeria.

EDITORIAL: Obama’s diplomacy by Twitter

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Somali refugees find new homes in Cheyenne

By LUCAS HIGH - Associated Press

ADVANCED FOR RELEASE MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014 Jaylani Hussein, board member of the American Relief Agency for the Horn of Africa, speaks about the history of Somalia on Saturday, April 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Minnesota Daily, Alicia McCann)

More Twin Cities Somalis returning home

By ETHAN NELSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 20, 2014 file photo, a 15-year-old boy, seen sitting on a stretcher center, who stowed away in the wheel well of a flight from San Jose, Calif., to Maui is loaded into an ambulance at Kahului Airport in Kahului, Maui, Hawaii. The teen’s mother, Ubah Mohamed Abdullahi, said while she spoke with Voice of America radio from a refugee camp in eastern Ethiopia, that her son had recently learned that she was alive after being told by his father she had died. (AP Photo/The Maui News, Chris Sugidono, File)

Teen stowaway desperate to see mother

By MARTHA MENDOZA and OSKAR GARCIA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 9, 2014 file photo, detained Somali women are fingerprinted and screened at the Kasarani sports stadium, Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya deported 91 more Somali nationals to Mogadishu on Thursday, April 17, 2014, the second wave of forced deportations that UNHCR warned could be endangering Somalis in need of protection from militants. But it is because of the steady drumbeat of terror attacks blamed on al-Shabab and its sympathizers that Kenya is now carrying out a massive security operation that threatens to open the country’s ethnic fault lines. Police say they are not targeting Somalis but instead are hunting terrorism suspects and illegal aliens. But rights groups say Somalis are bearing the brunt of police actions, including monetary shakedowns and physical and sexual abuses. Most Kenyans applaud the operation. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi, File)

Kenya sends 91 Somalis to Mogadishu amid crackdown

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

A Somali soldier walks near the wreckage of a car bomb that went off near the gate of one of Mogadishu's most popular hotels. Saturday, March, 15, 2014, A Somali police officer says a suicide car bomber accidentally detonated his explosives near a popular hotel in the Somali capital. Capt. Mohamed Hussein said the bomber appeared to have prematurely detonated his explosives-laden car Saturday as he tried to park near a hotel. No others were hurt or killed in the blast. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somali Suicide bomber kills self prematurely with accidental explosion

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North Dakota bank dumps money service businesses

By DAVE KOLPACK - Associated Press

In this photo taken Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014, teenage girls attend an after-school club which the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF helps fund, one of whose subjects is discussion of the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), at the Sheik Nuur Primary School in Hargeisa, Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia. Child rights advocates in nearly 30 countries are fighting to reduce the number of girls subjected to the cutting of their genitalia and last month about 60 religious and civic leaders in the capital of Somaliland, a semi-autonomous region in northern Somalia that has remained largely peaceful during Somalia's decades of conflict, attended a daylong seminar and debate on the subject. (AP Photo/Jason Straziuso)

Somaliland leaders want female genitals to be cut

By JASON STRAZIUSO - Associated Press