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 is an al-Qaeda-linked militant group based in Somalia. It claimed responsibility for the deadly attack at a Kenyan mall in September 2013. The group has recruited some Americans.

Al-Shabaab is an al-Qaeda-linked militant group based in Somalia. It was once allied with Sharia courts, which tried to impose order on the lawless country.

Al-Shabaab is an al-Qaeda-linked militant group based in Somalia. It was once allied with Sharia courts, which tried to impose order on the lawless country.

Security analysts warn that the group’s growing confidence and geographic reach reflects the fragility of Somalia’s internal ...

Offensive begins. In the middle of last year, Al Shabaab were controlling as much as 80 per cent of Somalia’s territory, with between 5,000 and 10,000 fighters.

It feels like a disturbing dream, hard to believe. While global attention is fixed on Ukraine, Gaza, and Tehran, other crisis zones seem to ...

Somalia's defense ministry is investigating an explosion at a military training school in Mogadishu that has been claimed by ...

Jubbaland security officials have presented a former Al-Shabaab member who surrendered to authorities in the Afmadow district ...

Al-Shabaab depends on several different sources of income, including revenues from piracy, kidnapping and extortion, as well as funding from private donors overseas, particularly in the Gulf.

An Al-Shabaab suicide bomber and gunmen have attacked a busy beach in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing 32 people and wounding scores more, in one of the deadliest attacks in months, police said.

Al-Shabaab’s Kenya attack proves the terrorist group is still deadly. Kenya has been an al-Shabaab target for years. It seems like that will continue, even with US-backed military efforts to ...