The president’s announcement came as local clans in central Somalia were revolting against the presence and the oppression of ...

A terrorist group, Al Shabab, claimed responsibility ... it conducted one of its longest and most sustained attacks, a 30-hour siege at a hotel in the capital that killed 21 people and wounded ...

New Military Offensives Put al-Shabab Terrorist Group on the Back Foot New Military Offensives Put al-Sha... | View Comments ...

It is the latest in a string of attacks launched by the al-Qaeda ... and eight civilians died in a 21-hour hotel siege on November 27. Al-Shabab’s activities have also restricted deliveries ...

As pressure on al-Shabab has grown, its fighters have struck back. They have stepped up gun and bomb attacks on the military and civilians, including in areas where they have retreated.

Al-Shabab has threatened violence against clans mobilizing against them in the past. In October of last year, similar terrorist attacks that targeted bridges in those towns killed at least 21 people.

- Al-Shabab fighters conduct military exercise in northern Mogadishu's Suqaholaha neighborhood, Somalia, Sunday, Sept. 5, ...

Somalia's Al Shabaab Attacks Base in Town It Had Lost, Kills Seven MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist al Shabaab militants on Friday killed at least seven soldiers at a Somali military base in a town ...

Somalia's military says five soldiers and 21 al ... Shabab in more than a decade. The group has over the years held back the nation’s recovery from decades of conflict by carrying out brazen ...

The attacks are on the backdrop of a ... his government would launch a "total war" against al Shabab, after the group staged the deadly hotel siege in Mogadishu. He, however, said the Somalia ...

In Somalia, al-Qaida-affiliated militant group al-Shabab has been on a gradual retreat for months, and this could be the ...