Stay updated with breaking news from Terrorism tactics. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Certain katie phang, author and host of the katie phang show right here on msnbc. thank you for joining. it s barber let me start with you. when most americans hear the word civil war, they have a mental image of a 19th century battlefield, gettysburg. and i think we re nowhere near anything like that happening again. but can you explain to those people why as you say the u.s. is a lot closer to civil war than most would like to believe? i m most civil wars do not look at all like our first civil war. that was very unusual in which you had these two large powerful armies going after each other. in fact the majority of civil wars especially in the 21st century or more of what we call insurgencies. they are unconventional wars fought by multiple different militias. they use terrorism tactics, they don t try to engage the military, instead they take ....
In this corner of africa? al shabaab grew out of a collection of islamist factions in the mid 2000s and they came together first to confront the ethiopian invasion of somalia in 2006. that collection of disparate factions then renamed themselves as al shabaab by late 2006 and early 2007, and started to change their orientation, became more unified to a degree, engaged in terrorism tactics and insurgency tactics, and by 2012, managed to profess their allegiance to al-qaeda. so that was an interesting change too, but the group is still for the most part made up of ethnic somalis, it is not a group, even with the al-qaeda affiliation, does not have arabs in its leadership ranks. and for the most part it fights a local agenda, although it has branched out more regionally and they have ....
Actions by the us, the african union, and the somali government, but time and time again it has shown an ability to conduct attacks like this. just give us the bit of extra context here. remind us who al shabab are, where they came from, and the role they play in this corner of africa? al shabab grew out of a collection of islamist factions in the mid 2000s and they came together first to confront the ethiopian invasion of somalia in 2006. that collection of disparate factions then renamed themselves as al shabab by late 2006 and early 2007, and started to change their orientation, became more unified to a degree, engaged in terrorism tactics and insurgency tactics, and by 2012, managed to profess their allegiance to al-qaeda. so that was an interesting change too, but the group is still for the most part made up of ethnic somalis, ....
They came togetherfirst factions in the mid 2000s and they came together first to confront the ethiopian invasion of somalia in 2006. that collection of disparate factions then renamed themselves as al shabaab by late 2006 and early 2007, and started to change their orientation, became more unified to a degree, engaged in terrorism tactics and insurgency tactics, and by 2012, managed to profess their allegiance to al-qaeda. so that was an interesting change too, but the group is still for the most part made up of ethnic somalis, it is not a group, even with the al-qaeda affiliation, does not have arabs in its leadership ranks. and for the most part it fights a local agenda, although it has branched out more regionally and they have been reports it ....
Drop the nuke if they want to. reporter: and alex, it s hard to call this indiscriminate bombing, because the russians seem to be targeting civilian sites with alarming frequency. and that s really scared people, like the lady we just heard from. they feel like all bets are off in this country and anywhere could be a target. vladimir putin and his war on terror is what he is doing. using terrorism tactics to do that. okay. thank you for that. now to nbc s foreign correspondent kobe cobiella joining us from warsaw, poland. word today some cities in poland are reaching or pretty much reached a breaking point with more than 2 million refugees flooding into just that country alone from ukraine. what have you been seeing there? reporter: that s right. warsaw, where i am now, is under tremendous strain. talking about tens of thousands of children alone who need to go ....