American airstrikes over the course of eight days helped Somalia’s military retake an important town from militants.

Army's elite unit, supported by international partners, carry out operation that also destroyed terrorist hideouts - Anadolu ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia, Aug 25, 2025 - Somali military authorities on Monday executed two members of the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab group who were convicted of carrying out deadly attacks, including ...

Mogadishu: Somali authorities announced on Saturday the killing of 11 Al Shabaab militants, including a senior commander, and the destruction of ...

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...