Shabaab has reasserted its dominance in the Hiiran region in central Somalia. The Al Qaeda branch’s takeover of the towns of ...

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 insurgents have captured the important town of Tardo in Somalia's Hiiran region, displacing thousands. The group ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Al Shabaab insurgents have seized the town of Tardo in Somalia's central Hiiran region and are pressing on with an advance that has already displaced thousands, a military ...

As unfortunate as it is for the locals or Americans who travel to such risky areas, Al-Shabaab is a regional African problem, ...

A blast has killed three Kenyan soldiers patrolling a road in the east of the country near the Somali border, the military said. The al Qaeda-linked Islamist group al Shabaab said on its website at ...

In 2013, al-Shabaab was responsible for a massacre at the Westgate mall in Kenya, killing 67 individuals. US forces have conducted six strikes in Somalia against al-Shabaab already this year, ...

Al Shabaab, the Somalia-based terrorist group affiliated with al Qaeda, reached its long arm into Kenya again on Jan. 15. According to police, attacks began around 3 p.m. in which gunmen jumped out of ...

A US military “self-defense strike” in Somalia on Tuesday killed seven al-Shabaab fighters, US Africa Command said in a statement. AFRICOM revealed the attack on Wednesday and said it came at ...

Kenya is striking back against Somalia's al-Shabaab Islamic militants who killed 148 people at Garissa University College. Victims' families are beginning to identify and collect the bodies of ...

Al-Shabaab is an al-Qaeda-linked militant group based in Somalia. It was once allied with Sharia courts, which tried to impose order on the lawless country.