Al Shabaab fighters attacked a town in central Somalia on Wednesday that government forces have been using as a staging area ...

Shabaab jihadists attacking a key town and a military base and also destroyed a shipment of weapons, the Somali government ...

The Somalia -based militant group al-Shabab on Wednesday attacked a strategic town that serves as a major base for government ...

Growing fears are sweeping across Mogadishu as the capital’s defenses appear to be faltering under sustained militant pressure.

U.S. airstrikes killed 12 al Shabaab militants and destroyed a weapons-carrying ship, following the group's attack on Adan ...

Some State Department officials have proposed closing the embassy in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, as a precaution after ...

U.S. airstrikes killed 12 al Shabaab militants in central Somalia and destroyed a ship carrying weapons for the al Qaeda-linked group, the Somali government said on Thursday, following recent advances ...

Al Shabaab fighters attacked Adan Yabaal, a strategic town in central Somalia, sparking a fierce battle with government ...

Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland dismissed a plan by Mogadishu to hand the US control of two ports on the Gulf of Aden as “desperate and misguided.” The comments by Somaliland’s Foreign ...

No injuries were reported among the 22 people on board in the incident that occurred around 2 pm local time. There was panic when a United Nations aircraft crash-landed at Aden Adde Airport in ...

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