Al-Shabab's Deadly Resilience

Last Thursday, a handful of armed men affiliated with al-Shabab entered a dormitory at northeast Kenya's Garissa University, executing 147 Christian students before government forces soldiers arrived on the scene. The massacre—the country's worst in 16 years—raised Kenya's death toll from al-Shabab attacks to over 600 since 2012, prompting renewed concerns that the Somali terrorist group operates with increased impunity. Last week, al-Shabab pulled off a deadly attack and occu