Somalia and Djibouti signed an agreement Wednesday for an additional deployment of Djiboutian Armed Forces personnel on ...

In a statement, Al-Shabaab said it had taken the town of Maxaas, around 300 kilometres (186 miles) from the capital Mogadishu ...

Shabaab has reasserted its dominance in the Hiiran region in central Somalia. The Al Qaeda branch’s takeover of the towns of ...

Somali National Army and Ugandan People's Defense Force repulsed al-Shabaab terrorist attack in Sabiib and Canoole areas of ...

Al-Shabaab has made significant territorial gains in central Somalia, capturing the strategic town of Maxaas after intense clashes with the Somali National Army and local militias. This victory is a ...

Al-Shabaab militants have captured the strategic central Somali town of Mahaas district, in Hiiran region of Somalia's Hirshabelle State, following heavy clashes with Somali government forces and ...

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

Cyclical rivalries between the federal government, states and the political opposition have undermined the counter-terrorism ...

Al-Shabaab, designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department in 2008, has been locked in a vicious battle over control over Somalia with government and regional forces for years.

Al-Shabaab's ideology is primarily concerned with fellow Muslims, on whom the group wishes to impose Taliban-like law, but Uganda is over 80 percent Christian.

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 desperately needed such attention for two reasons. For a start, it has been entirely overshadowed by the violent extremist group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria over the past year.