MOGADISHU - 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.

Al-Shabaab militants on Thursday fired multiple rockets into the Green Zone area in Mogadishu, the Somali capital. The development comes amid the arrival of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for ...

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 ...

Islamist fighters from al Shabaab on Tuesday stormed a military base in a part of central Somalia they were forced from last year, killing at least seven soldiers, including the base commander, an ...

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 officer and a local ...

Ciku*** (not her real name ) began her arduous journey to an Al Shabaab camp hoping to find acceptance after false belief that her parents didn’t like her. The five foot four tall 19-year-old ...

Map of Shabaab-controlled regions in southern and central Somalia. The red ovals indicate major cities and towns taken over by Shabaab according to open source reports. The yellow boxes are regions ...

The airstrike came just days before the one-year anniversary of al-Shabaab's deadliest attack -- a truck bombing in Somalia's capital that killed more than 500 people.

Al-Shabaab fighters launched a deadly attack on an African Union military base in Somalia on Friday, with both sides reportedly suffering heavy casualties.

This week's bloody slaughter of nearly 150 people at a Kenyan college has the world on edge -- and it's just the sort of fear terrorist group al-Shabaab wants to inspire. "This demonstrates that ...