Both Al-Shabaab and Isis operate in the wider sub-region known as Balli Dhidin with Qandala district in Bari, particularly between Qandala and Bosaso, the main port town and commercial capital of Puntland. The areas where the bulk of the confrontation had taken place are characterised by dry river beds, torrents with water streams and mountainous territories where the militants of both extremist groups have coexisted. Factions of the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab on Sunday clashed in Puntland State as the continual search for territorial supremacy rages. Will extremism ever end ?

