Authorities have also blamed the terror group and its sympathizers for the grenade and gun attacks in Kenya.

CNN: Second blast in 3 days hits Somali neighborhood in Kenya

Mr Short was killed in a gun and grenade attack at his home in Clayton in August.

BBC: Dale Cregan 'ordered beer and cigars' before PC murders

PCs Fiona Bone, 32, and Nicola Hughes, 23, were shot dead in a gun and grenade attack in Hattersley, Tameside, on 18 September.

BBC: Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes memorial garden opened in Hyde

Dale Cregan, 29, remains in custody on suspicion of the murders of the two Greater Manchester officers in a gun and grenade attack.

BBC: PC Ian Dibell family's shock over deaths of officers

Earlier in the Preston Crown Court trial Cregan admitted killing PCs Fiona Bone, 32, and Nicola Hughes, 23, in a gun and grenade attack in September.

BBC: Dale Cregan

Police in Indian-administered Kashmir say they have arrested a man in connection with Wednesday's gun and grenade attack in Srinagar in which five security personnel were killed.

BBC: 'Pakistani militant' held over Kashmir attack

The unarmed police constables had been sent to Abbey Gardens in Droylsden to investigate what appeared to be a routine burglary report when they were attacked with a gun and grenade.

BBC: Manchester police funerals: Call to line the streets

Dale Cregan, 29, was at Preston Crown Court having denied the murders of PCs Nicola Hughes, 23, and Fiona Bone, 32, in a gun and grenade attack in Mottram last September.

BBC: Dale Cregan: PCs murder trial starts

The unarmed police constables had been sent to Abbey Gardens in Mottram on 18 September to investigate what appeared to be a routine burglary report when they were killed in a gun and grenade attack.

BBC: PC Nicola Hughes' funeral held at Manchester Cathedral

In conferring the medal, President Barack Obama described the conditions faced by Romesha and 52 other soldiers when they came under attack from mortar, rocket-propelled grenade, machine-gun and sniper fire on October 3, 2009, at Combat Outpost Keating in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan.

CNN: Medal of Honor recipient conflicted by joy, sadness

The three members of the Royal Gurkha Rifles died in a gun and rocket-propelled grenade attack on Tuesday.

BBC: Afghan 'killer' of UK troops tells BBC he acted alone

Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, now 23, is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier during a gun battle in Afghanistan in 2002, when he was 15.

BBC: Youngest Guantanamo inmate, Canadian Omar Khadr, tried