The Somalia -based militant group al-Shabab on Wednesday attacked a strategic town that serves as a major base for government ...

Al Shabaab fighters attacked a town in central Somalia on Wednesday that government forces have been using as a staging area ...

U.S. airstrikes killed 12 al Shabaab militants in central Somalia and destroyed a ship carrying weapons for the al Qaeda-linked group, the Somali government said on Thursday, following recent advances ...

U.S. airstrikes killed 12 al Shabaab militants and destroyed a weapons-carrying ship, following the group's attack on Adan ...

Some State Department officials have proposed closing the embassy in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, as a precaution after ...

Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland dismissed a plan by Mogadishu to hand the US control of two ports on the Gulf of Aden as “desperate and misguided.” The comments by Somaliland’s Foreign ...

Joint US-Somalia air strikes and combat killed dozens of Al-Shabaab jihadists attacking a key town and a military base and ...

Al Shabaab fighters attacked Adan Yabaal, a strategic town in central Somalia, sparking a fierce battle with government ...

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Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre, accompanied by Mogadishu Mayor Yusuf Hussein Jimale and several cabinet members, visited a voter registration site in th ...

Al Shabaab fighters captured a town in central Somalia on Wednesday that government forces had been using as a staging area to drive back an offensive by the militants that has gained ground in recent ...