Al Shabab

MOGADISHU, Somalia—Somali authorities say a top leader of the al-Shabab terrorist group has been killed in a joint operation by the Somali National Army and international partner forces. Abdullahi Nadir ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia—A large explosion outside a school in Somalia's capital on Thursday killed at least eight people, including ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—A Dutch woman charged seven years ago with raising money for the Somali terrorist group al-Shabab has ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia—Simultaneous large explosions were heard in and around two Somali army bases on Saturday, with the military ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—A car bomb exploded at the gates of a military base in Somalia's capital Saturday, killing at ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia—A truck bomb exploded at a busy security checkpoint in Somalia's capital Saturday morning, killing at least ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia—Islamic extremists blew up the gate of a Somali hotel with a car bomb and took over ...

Death toll from the attack on a hotel in Somalia's port city of Kismayu has risen to 26, ...

Countries in the Horn of Africa continue to face a growing threat from extremist Islamist groups, particularly the Somali ...

Hoping to capture a high-profile target, U.S. special forces hopped off helicopters a couple of miles (kilometers) from ...

The defections of two fighters, an American and a U.S. resident, from Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels highlight tensions ...

Somalia's security forces on Monday arrested an American who was fighting with the Islamic extremist al-Shabab group, says ...

Five Islamic extremists attacked a hotel at dawn Sunday in the capital, Mogadishu, killing at least 6 people ...

NYPD Commissioner William Bratton stressed that American law enforcement, specifically the NYPD, have an unprecedented security challenge later ...

Al-Shabab' overran an African Union base in southern Somalia early Tuesday, a Somali military official said

Kenya's military Monday said they had killed the commander of al-Shabab extremist group responsible for two attacks a ...

The Somalia-based terrorist group has a track record of recruiting immigrants from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area to fight ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—A U.S. airstrike killed the intelligence chief of Somali terror group al-Shabab, Somalia's intelligence service said Tuesday. ...

A leader with the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, who had a $3 million bounty on his head, surrendered ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—Gunmen attacked the African Union's main base in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Thursday leading to ...

When Kenya sent troops to Somalia in 2011 to fight Islamic extremists, the al-Qaeda-linked group al-Shabab threatened to ...

One gunman shot from the right, one from the left, each killing the non-Muslims lying in a line ...

The strange journey of three suburban Denver girls who authorities say tried to join Islamic State militants in ...

The United Arab Emirates' top diplomat warned Wednesday that the Islamic State group could team up with Islamic ...

African Union and Somali troops on Sunday won control of a key coastal town that had been used ...

Somalia Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed declared he is willing to drive the Islamist al-Qaeda-related terrorist group al-Shabab ...

The deadly Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi may only be the first of many. It is a sign ...