The United States launched an air strike in Somalia that killed more than 150 fighters with the al Qaeda-linked Islamist group al Shabaab following U.S. intelligence on preparations for a large-scale ...

Shabaab has named its new training center for its ‘special forces’ after the slain al-Qaeda founder In a newly released video, Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s branch for East Africa, announced and advertised the ...

MOGADISHU: A suicide car bomb rammed into a Somali military training base in the southern port city of Kismayu on Saturday, the militant group, al Shabaab, and local residents said. "We heard a huge ...

Top Canadian security officials say they have intercepted or intervened in a number of cases involving Canadian youths set to join the Somalia-based militant organization al-Shabaab, but in spite of ...

Abdullahi Yare, one of the seven leaders named by the US on its most-wanted list in 2012, was believed to be next in line to ...

Al Qaeda recruits living in the UK and elsewhere have been used in attacks in their adopted homelands. Al Qaeda’s July 7, 2005 terrorist attacks in London, for example, utilized British citizens of ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - At least four Somali National Army (SNA) officers were killed following an al-Shabaab attack within the vicinity of the Jaalle Siyaad military academy, witnesses said, noting that ...

A British man appeared in court after he was accused of directing the activities of Somalia-based terrorist group Al-Shabaab. Jermaine Grant, a 43-year-old Muslim convert, has also been accused of ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia, June 21, 2015 (Garowe Online)-On the fourth day of the holy month of Ramadan, Al Shabaab gunmen attacked training base in Mogadishu’s Shibis district highlighting rise in militant ...

WASHINGTON/NAIROBI (Reuters) - The Pentagon said it had carried out an air strike on al Shabaab in Somalia on Sunday, and Somalia said its special forces had joined in the attack to destroy one of the ...