Former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua accused President William Ruto of links to terror groups RSF and al-Shabaab and ...

Garissa County Commissioner Mohamed Mwabudzo confirmed that nine police officers were injured at the Kiwanja-Yumbis after ...

The Somali army announced that more than 70 members of the Al-Shabaab movement were killed during a large-scale military ...

At least 70 al-Shabaab fighters were killed in a joint military operation by Somali government forces and African Union ...

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 ...

The 27-year-old Somalian was on the watchlist as “a confirmed member of al Shabaab," but a border bungle meant he was released after initially being arrested for crossing into the country ...

Al Shabaab, a terrorist and insurgent group based in Somalia, has been fighting the UN-backed government in Mogadishu for decades now, having risen up in response to the 1991 collapse of the Siad ...

Al Shabaab, an affiliate of al Qaeda, has come under intense pressure from the military and allied clan-based militias, who launched a major offensive last year. But the group has repeatedly shown ...

Cholo Abdi Abdullah, a suspected operative of the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab, has been charged with plotting a Sept. 11-style hijacking attack in the U.S.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...