Recent clashes in Somalia's semi-autonomous Jubaland region are alarming experts, exposing cracks in the country's federal ...

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

Somalia's elite Danab commandos, backed by international partners, killed more than 100 al-Shabaab militants in a planned military operation in the Awdheegle area of the Lower Shabelle region, ...

The US embassy in Nairobi issued a fresh security alert warning Americans and other foreigners to remain vigilant against possible terror attacks.

The Islamic State in Somalia is an affiliate of the transnational jihadist group Islamic State, known in short as ISIS. Based in the semi-autonomous northern Somalia territory of Puntland, the ...

Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud arrived in Dhusamareb, the capital of the Galmudug regional state, on Tuesday as part of a high-level delegation that includes federal ministers and senior ...

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

It’s true that what the U.S. has been trying for decades has yielded very limited returns. But it is equally true that ...

As Fartun Hashi Warsame serves cardamom-spiced tea at her shop, she often overhears worried chatter about the al-Shabaab ...

The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the request of the Department of State Services (DSS) to shield the identities 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’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 ...