Soldiers guard the entrance of a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia after a jihadist attack

File footage from 2024 following a siege of the SYL Hotel, where a jihadist group carried out an attack on the building near the presidential palace in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Video: EFE via Reuters Connect.)

File footage from 2024 of a police siege of the SYL Hotel where a jihadist group carried out an attack on the building near the presidential palace in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Video: EFE via Reuters Connect.)