American airstrikes over the course of eight days helped Somalia’s military retake an important town from militants.

Recent clashes in Somalia's semi-autonomous Jubaland region are alarming experts, exposing cracks in the country's federal ...

U.S. Africa Command conducted an airstrike against al Shabaab southwest of Bariire in central Somalia on August 17. U.S. Africa Command conducted an airstrike against al Shabaab southwest of Bariire ...

Somalia's elite Danab commandos, backed by international partners, killed more than 100 al-Shabaab militants in a planned military operation in the Awdheegle area of the Lower Shabelle region, ...

Army's elite unit, supported by international partners, carry out operation that also destroyed terrorist hideouts - Anadolu ...

As Fartun Hashi Warsame serves cardamom-spiced tea at her shop, she often overhears worried chatter about the al-Shabaab ...

It’s true that what the U.S. has been trying for decades has yielded very limited returns. But it is equally true that ...

The 27-year-old Somalian was on the watchlist as “a confirmed member of al Shabaab," but a border bungle meant he was released after initially being arrested for crossing into the country ...

Al-Shabaab is a Somali group that the United States designated as a foreign terrorist organization in March 2008. It wants to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state, according to the ...

GARISSA, Kenya -- Somalia's Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab on Saturday warned of more attacks in Kenya like the assault on Garissa University College in which 148 people were killed.

Al-Shabaab’s predecessor was al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI), which worked to create an Islamist emirate in Somalia. It was, in part, funded by former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to ...