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

Shabaab jihadists attacking a key town and a military base and also destroyed a shipment of weapons, the Somali government ...

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

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 ...

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

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Somalia’s South West State forces have engaged in heavy gunfire with Al Shabab militants near Baidoa town in the Bay region, ...

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 ...