Joint forces comprising the Somali National Army (SNA) and African Union troops, particularly from the Ugandan contingent, ...

Interior Cabinet Kipchumba Murkomen has threatened to admit former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua to a mental hospital ...

A senior al-Shabaab leader in charge of finance was killed during a targeted operation which was carried out in the country's southwestern region, the Defense Ministry of Somalia claimed in a ...

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has challenged former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua to record a formal statement with the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) over his recent ...

Somalia’s Ministry of Defence has confirmed the killing of a senior al-Shabab leader in charge of finance during a targeted ...

GARISSA, Kenya -- Somalia's Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab on Saturday warned of more attacks in Kenya like the assault on Garissa University College in which 148 people were killed.

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 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 ...