Two soldiers killed and 12 wounded during operations in Lower Shabelle region, Defense Ministry says - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Joint forces comprising the Somali National Army (SNA) and African Union troops, particularly from the Ugandan contingent, are making gradual advances into areas of Lower Shabelle region still under ...

The U.S. military has carried out at least 25 airstrikes, including drone strikes, this year against the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab, the deadliest Islamic extremist group in sub-Saharan Africa.

Air Force Brig. Gen. Dagvin Anderson, has pledged to keep American forces engaged in Somalia but signaled a potential ...

"...because he has said he has information and knows who was in meetings with al-Shabaab, as soon as he lands in Kenya, he ...

U.S. forces in Somalia recently conducted a strike that killed Ali Muhammad Hussein, the al-Shabaab terrorist known as Ali Jabal, the U.S. military has confirmed. The strike occurred about 3 p.m ...

To take advantage of this trend, the Somali government should encourage religious leaders to engage al-Shabaab in niqaashno that call into question the religious legitimacy of the group’s more radical ...

Al-Shabaab, a militant group affiliated with al Qaeda that has been trying to overthrow Somalia's central government for 15 years, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Al-Shabaab, designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department in 2008, has been locked in a vicious battle over control over Somalia with government and regional forces for years.

Islamist al Shabaab militants on Friday killed at least seven soldiers at a Somali military base in a town re-captured by the government, the information ministry and militant group said. The ...

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 won control of almost all of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, in 2006, and held large swathes of central and southern Somalia until a United Nations-backed force from the African Union ...