Al-Qaeda continues its daily rampage across the Islamic world.

Via Reuters:

Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants pushed into Somalia’s presidential palace and gunfire broke out on Tuesday, an al Shabaab spokesman and a palace official said.

“The militants have partly entered the presidential palace compound. There is periodic gunfire now,” an official in the presidential palace who asked not to be named told Reuters. “I understand most attackers have been killed. No further details.”

Al Shabaab confirmed they were involved. “We have entered the so-called presidential palace. We have now captured some parts of the palace and fighting is still going on,” Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab’s military operations spokesman told Reuters.

More from AFP:

Somalia’s Islamist Shebab rebels said Tuesday they had taken control of the office of the country’s internationally-backed president following a major assault on the presidential palace.

“Our commandos are inside the so-called presidential office,” Shebab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP. “We are in control of the headquarters of the apostate regime.”