Al Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack that killed three people at a restaurant frequented by members of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Somali government forces were fighting on Saturday to repel al Shabaab militants who stormed a high-security ...

On August 6, 2023, one year after President Mohamud declared total war against al-Shabaab, Somali forces announced the launch of the campaign’s second phase focused on uprooting the militants from its ...

Islamist militants from the Al-Shabaab group on Thursday attacked a popular hotel near the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, security sources and witnesses said. The assault, for ...

Shabaab commander Hussein Moallim Hassan, also known as Magaalabeen had been killed in a joint military operation over the weekend, senior officials announced on Monday. During a press conference in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Two joint Somali-U.S. airstrikes killed 12 al Shabaab militants in central Somalia and destroyed a ship ...

Somalia's National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), supported by international partners, has killed 16 al-Shabaab militants, including two key operatives, in central Somalia. According to NISA ...

Al-Shabaab Islamist militants have claimed responsibility for Saturday’s massive car bomb in the Somali capital Mogadishu that killed 81 people, including two Turkish citizens. Saturday’s attack hit a ...

MOGADISHU , July 14 (Reuters) - Al Shabaab insurgents have seized the town of Tardo in Somalia's central Hiiran region and are pressing on with an advance that has already displaced thousands, a ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — The militant group al-Shabaab has launched a sweeping offensive across southern and central Somalia, reclaiming key towns and reversing years of territorial losses, according to a ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Two Al-Shabaab fighters were gunned down by police in Mogadishu on Monday, officials confirmed, hours after they killed a civilian within the city, further exposing the unending ...

We have seen this movie before with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Now its sequel is playing out to devastating effect in Somalia. Al-Shabaab — a Salafi Jihadist confederation — is rapidly securing ...