Gunmen suspected of belonging to the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group abducted five government officials in northeast Kenya on Monday as they were on their way to work, local leaders were quoted on ...

The U.S. conducted an airstrike against Islamic State militants in Somalia, the first such military operation since President ...

If the adherence to the principles of ... the Al Shabaab resurgence, the standoffs in Puntland and Jubaland regional states, and the imagined and actual places of regional actors like Kenya ...

Karrem Nasr, a New Jersey native who traveled to Kenya to join al Shabaab pleaded guilty on Monday and faces ... His final act was to join the Somalia-based terrorist group to receive the military ...

In December 2023, he flew from Egypt to Kenya, intending to proceed to Somalia to join and train with al-Shabaab. Kenyan authorities arrested him upon arrival, and he was then extradited to the ...

The Somali army on Tuesday killed 16 al-Shabab terrorists in an operation in the eastern part of Hiiraan region, according to state media. The army alongside local forces intensified a large ...

BELEDWEYNE, Somalia - A debate on appropriate actions against civilians living in Al-Shabaab strongholds has triggered sharp debate in Somalia, with a former governor suggesting that they should pay ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The Somali National Army (SNA) boss Gen. Yusuf Rage Odowaa says the military should put more focus on the elimination of the Al-Shabaab, a group that has organized mass killings ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday that the strikes by U.S. Africa Command were directed by Trump and coordinated ...

Multiple ISIS-Somalia operatives died in coordinated airstrikes carried out Saturday by the U.S. Africa Command in the Golis ...

Somalia, on Feb. 20. (Feisal Omar/Reuters) The al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which operates in Somalia, remains one of the most dangerous terrorist organizations active today.