In a new video released by Somali-based terror group Al Shabaab, the Al Qaeda affiliate urged "their Muslim brothers" to attack Western shopping centers, including the Mall of America and Canada's West Edmonton Mall.

Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for a bus attack that killed 28 people in Northern Kenya this morning, CNN reports. According to Reuters, gunmen separated passengers into groups of Muslims and suspected non-Muslims, sparing those who could recite the Koran.

Three women were arrested and two more are being sought in connection to an alleged financing conspiracy for the extremist Muslim group al Shabaab, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. The women arrested today were allegedly the heads of a network of mostly women that would funnel money to the insurgents in Somalia and Kenya disguised as donations to orphans and other philanthropic causes.

One day after gunmen terrorized the coastal town of Mpeketoni, Kenya, slaughtering 48 people, a second attack on the nearby villages Poromoko and Pagani left at least nine more dead, according to local police.

When I was little there was no such thing as terrorism and there was no such thing as Female Genital Mutilation. I lived an oblivious, suburban life up until 1999, when I moved to Minneapolis, where I still reside today. I'll never forget the day when Zuhar, my cousin and next-door neighbor, asked me if I was circumcised.