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 ...

However, considering the long suffering of people in Somalia and previous changes in the country, it is difficult to know if ...

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.

U.S. Africa Command is a statement released said that a U.S. military strike has killed approximately 30 Islamist Al Shabaab ...

His remarks came after the militants carried out two attacks on government ... on suspicion of facilitating the al-Shabab attack on the Villa Rays Hotel in Mogadishu in late November.

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 ...

Al-Shabab’s thousands of fighters have held back the nation’s recovery from decades of conflict by carrying out brazen attacks in the capital, Mogadishu, and elsewhere. Over the years ...

The leaders of Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya have agreed on a joint “search and destroy” military campaign against the Somali al-Shabab Islamic militant group that has carried out attacks in ...

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