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 ...

U.S. forces carried out a series of airstrikes against al-Shabab in Somalia at the start of the month, the latest escalation of the American involvement in the country. U.S. Africa Command confirmed ...

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 ...

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 ...