The Latest Breaking News from AlShabab

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

The al-Shabab extremist group has exploited Ethiopia’s internal turmoil to cross the border from neighboring Somalia in unprecedented attacks in recent weeks that a top U.S. military commander has warned could continue

The co-founder and former spokesperson for al-Shabab has been under house arrest since 2018.

A former deputy leader of the al-Shabab extremist group has been named a government minister by Somalia’s new administration in what some call a chance to persuade fighters to denounce violence

A Dutch woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for donating several hundred dollars to a group that supported the militant group al-Shabab in Somalia

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