The Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for killing dozens of KDF troops after they attacked a remote military base in Somalia on Thursday, January 26, 2017. According to a spokesman for al-Shabaab, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, he said its fighters killed at least 57 Kenyans and took over the base in the southern town of Kulbiyow, near the Kenyan border.