Two soldiers killed and 12 wounded during operations in Lower Shabelle region, Defense Ministry says - Anadolu Ajansı ...

The Somali army announced that more than 70 members of the Al-Shabaab movement were killed during a large-scale military ...

Shabaab fighters were killed in a joint military operation by Somali government forces and African Union peacekeepers in the Lower Shabelle region, Somalia's Ministry of Defence said on Monday.The ...

The African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) has denied reports that its soldiers suffered heavy ...

Somali National Army and Ugandan People's Defense Force repulsed al-Shabaab terrorist attack in Sabiib and Canoole areas of ...

Security analysts warn that the group’s growing confidence and geographic reach reflects the fragility of Somalia’s internal stability.

In a statement, Al-Shabaab said it had taken the town of Maxaas, around 300 kilometres (186 miles) from the capital Mogadishu ...

Al-Shabaab, a militant group affiliated with al Qaeda that has been trying to overthrow Somalia's central government for 15 years, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Islamist al Shabaab militants on Friday killed at least seven soldiers at a Somali military base in a town re-captured by the government, the information ministry and militant group said. The ...

To take advantage of this trend, the Somali government should encourage religious leaders to engage al-Shabaab in niqaashno that call into question the religious legitimacy of the group’s more radical ...

Al-Shabaab's ideology is primarily concerned with fellow Muslims, on whom the group wishes to impose Taliban-like law, but Uganda is over 80 percent Christian.

Al-Shabaab, designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department in 2008, has been locked in a vicious battle over control over Somalia with government and regional forces for years.