International peacekeepers are battling radical Islamist fighters to retake a strategic Somali town, the African Union mission in the country said on Sunday.

Islamist militants took control of the strategic town of Maxaas in central Somalia on Sunday after heavy fighting with the ...

Qaeda, marked Kenya’s grim entry into the global war on terror. It was one of the deadliest attacks on African soil and a ...

Al-Shabaab has made significant territorial gains in central Somalia, capturing the strategic town of Maxaas after intense ...

Airstrikes targeting al-Shabaab militants in Somalia's central Hiiraan region have killed dozens, including senior leaders of the extremist group, local sources and officials said on Friday.The ...

The Ugandan Ministry of Defense announced its troops and Somali National Army forces jointly captured Bariire, a strategic town 50km southwest of Mogadishu. Officials said the offensive was part of ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia- Four soldiers were killed and seven others injured in clashes with the al-Shabaab terror group after ...

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

Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir, alias Ikrima is a senior al-Shabaab figure accused of deadly attacks in Uganda and Kenya.

It was later taken over by al Shabaab, which first rose up against the government in 2007 before pledging its allegiance to al Qaeda. “Haradhere and Galcad districts have been taken from the ...

Al Shabaab insurgents have seized the town of Tardo in Somalia's central Hiiran region and are pressing on with an advance that has already displaced thousands, a military official said.

Al Shabaab, which has said it carried out suicide bomb attacks and killed 137 soldiers at the base, has been fighting since 2006 to replace Somalia’s Western-backed government with its own rule ...