Remote-control blast comes after raids to clear al Qaeda 'remnants' from city. July 16, 2012 — -- Just days after the Somali government announced it was sweeping ...

The Kenyan military said its warplanes bombed targets held by the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab Islamist group in Somalia on Thursday in retaliation for the Nairobi mall attack that killed at least 67 ...

Somalia's Al-Shabaab militants on Monday shot dead the Maltese manager of a port, while detonating a car bomb in the capital which killed nine people and wounded several others. In a deadly day for ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist militant group al Shabaab said it was responsible for a bomb blast on Wednesday near the presidential palace and other government buildings in Somalia's capital ...

Kenya’s Elite Special Operations Group (SOG) officers have stopped eight Al-Shabaab terrorists who were attempting to plant improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Garissa County. In a statement issued ...

Somalia said on Thursday that a precision air strike carried out last month in the town of Jilib, in the Middle Juba region, killed two senior Al-Shabaab commanders, including the group's chief bomb ...

GARISSA, Kenya - Al-Shabaab fighters targeted police officers in neighbouring Kenya, in yet another coordinated raid by the group, which is trying to destabilise security operations within the Horn of ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Al Shabaab Islamist militants said they were behind a bomb and gun attack on the headquarters of Somalia's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Mogadishu on Sunday. "A ...