American extremist Omar Hammami, who was reported killed in Somalia after he fell out with the al-Shabaab rebel group’s top commander, switched a mundane life in Alabama for a spot in the global jihad, with a $5m (€3.75m) bounty on his head from the US.

A most-wanted American jihadi in Somalia has tweeted pictures of himself after what he says was an assassination attempt.

US authorities charged 14 people, most of them Americans, as participants in “a deadly pipeline” that routed money and fighters from the United States to the militant group al-Shabab in Somalia.