Ethiopia on Friday announced that it will collaborate with a new African Union force against Islamist Al-Shabaab insurgents ... had previously indicated that Ethiopian troops would not take ...

Shabaab commander Sheikh ... throughout the 1990s. Al-Ittihad-al-Islamiyah conducted bombings in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa in 1996 and 1997 and small-scale attacks throughout the country.

Over the next two years, Al-Shabaab broke away from the Union and rose to prominence in Somalia. It transformed from a terrorist organisation, fighting Ethiopian ... of foreign forces in Somalia.

Photo: Denish Ochieng) The soldiers killed and injured by Al Shabaab at El Adde in ... stationed in Bardheere which is held by Ethiopian and Kenyan forces, and Mohamed Hersi Islam Madhobe, the ...

The UN Security Council has given the green light to a new African Union force in Somalia that is meant to take on the Islamist armed group al-Shabaab ... although Ethiopian troops would not ...

GAROWE, Somalia - Police in Somalia’s federal state of Puntland has dismissed claims that Ethiopian nationals have been killed ... Puntland is battling against ISIS militants and their Al-Shabaab ...

Somalia is one of the world's poorest countries, enduring decades of civil war, a bloody insurgency by the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab ... Ethiopian troops would not be involved in the new AU force.