Islamic extremist fighters killed four Somali government soldiers and briefly took a town near the border with Kenya Monday, a military official said. The dawn attack on the town of Beled-Hawo started with a suicide car bombing targeting government troops' front-line defenses. A gunfight then ...
Two Kenyan police officers were killed Sunday by gunmen on a motorbike as they were guarding a church near the Indian Ocean, in an attack police believe could be the work of al-Shabab militants. "An investigation has been launched and we are not ruling out ...
U.S. forces launched a fresh strike at al-Shabab militants in Somalia over the weekend, the second such attack in a month, defense officials said Monday. The attack Sunday was a "kinetic strike operation," said Patrick Barnes, a spokesman for the U.S. Africa Command. That term usually ...
Gunmen posing as military forces were holding an unknown number of hostages inside a popular restaurant in Somalia's capital in an attack that began when a car bomb exploded at the gate, police and a witness said, while the extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility. ...
U.S. forces carried out a strike in conjunction with Somali special forces Sunday against al-Shabab approximately 185 miles (300 km) southwest of Mogadishu, according to the Pentagon. The Pentagon said the operation occurred at approximately 0600 GMT "in coordination with regional partners as a direct ...
Somali Islamist insurgents stoned a man to death on Sunday as punishment for alleged adultery, they said, a reminder that the militia is still strong enough to carry out public executions despite losing its grip on most towns and cities. Hundreds of witnesses watched the ...
Five police officers were killed Thursday when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Kenya in an attack claimed by al-Shabab Islamists a day after nine police died in similar blasts. The officers had been deployed to the restive northeastern region to take part in ...
Somalia's government and its foreign backers on Thursday signed a security pact that they presented as a road map toward building a functional national army capable of taking on the fight against al-Shabab militants. The al-Qaida-linked Islamist militant group has lost much of the territory ...
Somali Islamists are letting civilians in drought-hit regions under their control move with relative freedom to find food, the group and a U.N. official said on Thursday, but they are continuing to restrict the access of international aid groups. Somalia, struggling to recover from more ...
The Islamist group al-Shabab seized a town northwest of Somalia's capital from government forces on Sunday, the latest small center taken by the militant group trying to topple the country's Western-backed government. Shabab, which once ruled much of Somalia, has been fighting for years to ...
Somali security forces Thursday ended an overnight siege by extremist gunmen at a hotel in the capital which killed least 15 people, including two members of parliament, officials said. The assault started when a vehicle laden with explosives detonated outside the Ambassador Hotel Wednesday evening ...
A military court in the Somali capital on Monday gave life terms to two men convicted of masterminding the bombing in February of an airliner that made an emergency landing with a gaping hole in the fuselage. The explosion happened aboard Daallo Airlines Airbus A321 ...
