 U.S. authorities hailed the raid as a major symbolic and operational loss for al-Shabaab, and the Somali government offered a 45-day amnesty to all moderate members of the militant group.The group remains nonetheless strong and active, and is responsible for many terrorist attacks with high death tolls including the September 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack, 14 October 2017 Mogadishu bombings and December 2019 Mogadishu bombing.Al-Shabaab is also known as Ash-Shabaab, Hizb al-Shabaab ("Party of the Youth"), and Popular Resistance Movement in the Land of the Two Migrations (PRM) ().