As Iran’s support for the Houthis fades, the group is looking across the Red Sea to Somalia’s most notorious terrorist group.

The offensive al-Shabaab launched in late February 2025 marks its most ambitious push in years, reversing government gains and reasserting control in swathes of central and southern Somalia. The rapid ...

Kenya is striking back against Somalia's al-Shabaab Islamic militants who killed 148 people at Garissa University College. Victims' families are beginning to identify and collect the bodies of their ...

The Houthis’ alleged support for Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia remains limited at this stage, although it is nonetheless concerning.

The United Nations security council unanimously voted on 15 August 2024 to extend the mandate of the 12,626 men and women of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (Atmis). The African ...

On December 22, 2025, Cholo Abdi Abdullah was sentenced by the United States government to two consecutive life terms.

Shabaab fighters march in Somalia. Image from a Shabaab propaganda video. The Somali government stated on Monday that another co-founder of Shabaab is dead. The individual, identified as Mahmoud Abdi ...

Last week, after months of speculation and dubious reports about his fate, Omar Hammami – the American commander and erstwhile media face of al-Shabaab – left the jihadist group. In an interview with ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Security teams in Kenya have been activated in the coastal area and around the dense Boni Forest to pursue Al-Shabaab attackers, who are said to have killed at least five police ...

Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant ...