Gunmen suspected of belonging to the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group abducted five government officials in northeast Kenya on Monday as they were on their way to work, local leaders were quoted on ...

A young Al Shabaab militant from Galgadud region has surrendered to authorities following the arrest of his lover while she was on her way to visit him.Abshir Adan Mohamed, gave in to the security ...

In an earlier statement on Monday, Africom stated that senior al-Shabaab leader Mohamed Mire, also known as Abu Abdirahman, who was responsible for al-Shabaab's regional governance in Somalia for ...

The leader of the Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab has for the first time confirmed claims by members of his group that it was behind the attack on a Nairobi shopping mall that killed at ...

A senior commander of the Islamic State's Somalia wing was captured, signaling a significant breakthrough in ongoing ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A Kenya Defence Forces airstrike on an Al Shabaab hideout killed Maalim Janow, the ...

A senior commander of Islamic State's Somalia wing was captured on Monday, police and state media said, two days after the IS leadership was targeted with U.S. airstrikes and as security forces ...

The incident was confirmed by Mandera South police commander Julius Njeru, who said the five chiefs were travelling on ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - A US Africa Command (AFRICOM) precision airstrike carried out on December 24 in collaboration with Somalia's government killed Mohamed Mire, a high-ranking Al-Shabaab official known ...

Five chiefs were on Monday abducted by suspected al-Shabaab militants in Mandera County. North Eastern Regional Commissioner ...