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 ...

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

Ijara constituency has seen repeated attacks by Al-Shabaab militants, partly due to its proximity to the dense Boni Forest, ...

Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) said on Sunday that an airstrike targeting al-Shabaab terrorists ...

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 remains capable of carrying out massive attacks in Somalia and nearby countries despite a long-running African Union offensive against the Islamist terrorist group.

Al-Shabaab’s resilience is, therefore, a symptom of these state-building and governance failures. Second, it’s important to keep in mind a few things about al-Shabaab as an organization.

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, ...

While al-Shabaab did not officially form as a group until more than 10 years after Operation Gothic Serpent, according to the CIA World Factbook, the point stands that this was a large engagement ...

Al-Shabaab is an al-Qaeda-linked militant group based in Somalia. It claimed responsibility for the deadly attack at a Kenyan mall in September 2013. The group has recruited some Americans.

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 is an al-Qaeda-linked militant group based in Somalia. It claimed responsibility for the deadly attack at a Kenyan mall in September 2013. The group has recruited some Americans.