Al-Shabaab is an al-Qaeda-linked militant group based in Somalia. It claimed responsibility for the deadly attack at a Kenyan mall in September 2013. The group has recruited some Americans.

Al Shabaab insurgents have captured the important town of Tardo in Somalia's Hiiran region, displacing thousands. The group ...

Security analysts warn that the group’s growing confidence and geographic reach reflects the fragility of Somalia’s internal ...

As unfortunate as it is for the locals or Americans who travel to such risky areas, Al-Shabaab is a regional African problem, ...

Al-Shabaab is trying to establish jihadist rule over territory in Somalia. The Houthis, a Zaydi Shia rebel group backed by the regime in Tehran, ...

Al-Shabaab’s resilience is, therefore, a symptom of these state-building and governance failures. Second, it’s important to keep in mind a few things about al-Shabaab as an organization.

Al Shabaab, the Somalia-based terrorist group affiliated with al Qaeda, reached its long arm into Kenya again on Jan. 15. According to police, attacks began around 3 p.m. in which gunmen jumped out of ...

In 2013, al-Shabaab was responsible for a massacre at the Westgate mall in Kenya, killing 67 individuals. US forces have conducted six strikes in Somalia against al-Shabaab already this year, ...

Kenya is striking back against Somalia's al-Shabaab Islamic militants who killed 148 people at Garissa University College. Victims' families are beginning to identify and collect the bodies of ...

Fighters from Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group on Tuesday overran a military base in the southern Jubbaland region that they had lost to the army in January, a Somali officer and a local ...

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 is an al-Qaeda-linked militant group based in Somalia. It was once allied with Sharia courts, which tried to impose order on the lawless country.