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American airstrikes over the course of eight days helped Somalia’s military retake an important town from militants.

Somali National Army (SNA) forces, specifically the 95th Battalion of the 9th Brigade under the 60th Division, conducted a carefully planned overnight operation between the areas of Ceel-boon and ...

Mandera Governor Ali Roba, on August 7, addressed allegations over President William Ruto’s visit to Mandera County, ...

GARISSA, Kenya -- Somalia's Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab on Saturday warned of more attacks in Kenya like the assault on Garissa University College in which 148 people were killed.

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.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Fighters from Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group on Tuesday overran a military base in the southern Jubbaland region that they had lost to the army in January, a Somali ...

Nigerian prosecutors on Monday arraigned five men accused of carrying out a deadly Islamist militant attack on a Catholic ...

Zarate points to al-Shabaab's probable "access to westerners" as a major concern, citing reports of Americans, Australians and other Western Europeans who have been lured by jihadist ideologies.

Al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s brutal Somali affiliate, has claimed credit for the attack by multiple gunmen at an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya that has already killed at least 59 people.

"Operationally, Al Shabaab lies well beyond most extant large elephant populations so it is difficult to see how they could possibly sustain ivory trade on the scale that EAL claim," said Milliken.