The Speaker of Somalia's House of the People, Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur (Madobe), arrived on Wednesday in the southwestern town of Xuddur, the administrative capital of Bakool region, as part of a ...

The latest deal enables Djibouti, which has been one of the troop-contributing countries in Somalia, to increase its troops ...

Cyclical rivalries between the federal government, states and the political opposition have undermined the counter-terrorism ...

Al-Shabaab has made significant territorial gains in central Somalia, capturing the strategic town of Maxaas after intense ...

In a statement, Al-Shabaab said it had taken the town of Maxaas, around 300 kilometres (186 miles) from the capital Mogadishu ...

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 militants singled out Christians, shooting them inside rooms where university students were hiding underneath beds, said survivors of Thursday's attack in Kenya.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...