American forces have been carrying out airstrikes in support of the offensive against al-Shabaab, which has been losing ...

Al-Shabab, an al-Qaida-linked Islamic extremist group that has carried out many attacks in Somalia, claimed responsibility for the assault on the hotel, which is popular with Somali government ...

Al-Shabab often attacks hotels and government buildings. Al-Shabaab claimed that the home of a senior army officer also contained members of the Macawisley militia who had been wounded in the ...

At least five people were killed and 11 others wounded, including a regional governor, in a suicide attack on Tuesday in southern Somalia, police said, a bombing claimed by Al-Shabaab militants.

However, it has carried out attacks outside of Somalia, including in Ethiopia and Kenya. al-Shabaab was responsible for the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi, where four gunmen killed ...

The Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab group later claimed responsibility for the attack, asserting that seven ... day after twin blasts rocked a Mogadishu hotel, injuring at least four people.

The extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack that occurred as military officers and Gedo administration officials in Bardhere began to recruit locals to help drive al-Shabab ...

The U.S. ambassador to Somalia said the Somali government's military operations against al-Shabab have cost the militants one third of their territory. "Somali-led offensives have restored Somalia ...