The Latest Breaking News from AlShabab

Somalia has launched what is being called the most significant military offensive against the al-Shabab extremist group in more than a decade

Somalia President Mohamud urges citizens to help flush out members of the group he describes as ‘bedbugs’.

Cristiano Ronaldo’s move to Saudi outfit Al-Nassr was finally confirmed earlier this week and he has already been issued a warning by one of his new teammates amid a rivalry with Liverpool star Mohamed Salah

Baidoa, surrounded by Al-Shabab militants, is at the heart of Somalia's worst drought in 40 years. Aid groups warn of impending famine. "The needs are overwhelming," says a UNICEF specialist.

Eight civilians and one soldier killed during siege and five other soldiers wounded, police spokesman says.

Luke O'Nien says the Black Cats have returned from Dubai ready to build on a positive first half of their Championship campaign

Mohamed Sayid Hassan Elmi is believed to have been in Somalia for less than two weeks before the attack, which saw al-Shabaab militants open fire at guests of the Villa Rose Hotel

Government officials frequently use the Villa Rosa hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu for meetings.

Somalia’s government said Saturday that a military operation in the country’s Lower and Middle Shabelle and Hiran regions killed more than 100 extremist al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab militants. Somalia’s deputy information minister Abdirahman Yusuf Omar Adala said the operation took place on the outskirts of the village of El-Dhere at the…