The assailants rammed the military base in the village of Hawadley with a suicide car bomb and then opened fire.

The president’s announcement came as local clans in central Somalia were revolting against the presence and the oppression of ...

A terrorist group, Al Shabab, claimed responsibility ... it conducted one of its longest and most sustained attacks, a 30-hour siege at a hotel in the capital that killed 21 people and wounded ...

Somali soldiers outside the Jazeera Hotel in Mogadishu. Image from The Associated Press. Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in Somalia, carried out a devastating attack last night outside the Jazeera hotel in ...

It is the latest in a string of attacks launched by the al-Qaeda ... and eight civilians died in a 21-hour hotel siege on November 27. Al-Shabab’s activities have also restricted deliveries ...

However, they are clearly up against a relentless adversary, determined to continue with attacks against Somali government as ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Several soldiers have been arrested in line with the Al-Shabaab attack which targeted Villa Rays Hotel in Mogadishu on November 28, Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre has confirmed, ...

People react and walk among rubbles following an attack outside a hotel on January 25, 2017, in Mogadishu. [File, AFP] Al-Shabab launched a deadly attack on a Somali military base on Tuesday ...

On Wednesday morning, nine people were reported killed in twin car bombings in central Somalia. This followed an attack on a Mogadishu hotel in November and another in August last year. The ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - 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 ...

In Somalia, al-Qaida-affiliated militant group al-Shabab has been on a gradual retreat for months, and this could be the ...