The Latest Breaking News from AlShabab

A U.S. air strike killed 13 members of the al-Shabab Islamist terrorist group in the Hiiran region of central Somalia on Sunday, state-owned national television reported, citing Somali army officials.

Mukhtar Robow, formerly a leader of the rebel group, has been appointed as a minister.

Dozens of female street cleaners have been killed in the Somali capital by Improvised Explosive Devices since 2008.

US Africa Command says strike in southern Lower Juba region was carried out in response to attack on ‘partner forces’.

A constellation of factors have converged to bolster the Islamist militant group in Somalia, writes Sudarsan Raghavan

A new study has found that Facebook failed to catch Islamic State group and al-Shabab extremist content in posts aimed at East Africa as the region remains under threat from violent attacks and Kenya prepares to vote in a closely contested national election

The al-Qaida-linked rebel group al-Shabab is projecting authority and asserting a wider role in public life in Somalia, underlining the extent of the challenge Africa’s deadliest Islamic extremist group presents to the newly elected government of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

The U.N. envoy for Somalia is urging the country to build on last week's election of a new president and make progress on urgent issues

Somalia swore in a new president last weekend after nearly two years of delay as the incumbent clung to power. The next day, the administration of President Joe Biden said it would again deploy hundreds of troops in the country to help in the government’s counterterrorism campaign.