Senior UN official in Somalia dies after illness Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, head of the United Nations Support Office in Somalia ...

Somalia's military court has carried out the death sentence by firing squad against three convicted members of the militant group Al-Shabaab, officials confirmed on Thursday morning.The execution, ...

Joint forces comprising the Somali National Army (SNA) and African Union troops, particularly from the Ugandan contingent, ...

A senior al-Shabaab leader in charge of finance was killed during a targeted operation which was carried out in the country's southwestern region, the Defense Ministry of Somalia claimed in a ...

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 ...

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has called on former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua to formally present any ...

GARISSA, Kenya -- Somalia's Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab on Saturday warned of more attacks in Kenya like the assault on Garissa University College in which 148 people were killed.

Al Shabaab militants singled out Christians, shooting them inside rooms where university students were hiding underneath beds, said survivors of Thursday's attack in Kenya.

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 ...