Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has reaffirmed the government’s unwavering commitment to the fight against Al-Shabaab.Speaking during a Jukwaa la Usalama meeting in Laikipia County, ...

In a statement, Al-Shabaab said it had taken the town of Maxaas, around 300 kilometres (186 miles) from the capital Mogadishu ...

The Speaker of Somalia's House of the People, Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur (Madobe), arrived on Wednesday in the southwestern town of Xuddur, the administrative capital of Bakool region, as part of a ...

Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has cautioned former police and military officers ...

Analysis - Cyclical rivalries between the federal government, states and the political opposition have undermined the counter ...

Al-Shabaab has made significant territorial gains in central Somalia, capturing the strategic town of Maxaas after intense ...

Al Shabaab, a terrorist and insurgent group based in Somalia, has been fighting the UN-backed government in Mogadishu for decades now, having risen up in response to the 1991 collapse of the Siad ...

The 27-year-old Somalian was on the watchlist as “a confirmed member of al Shabaab," but a border bungle meant he was released after initially being arrested for crossing into the country ...

Al-Shabaab is a Somali group that the United States designated as a foreign terrorist organization in March 2008. It wants to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state, according to the ...

Al-Shabaab’s predecessor was al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI), which worked to create an Islamist emirate in Somalia. It was, in part, funded by former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to ...

Al-Shabaab is a Somali group that the United States designated as a foreign terrorist organization in March 2008. It wants to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state, according to the ...