Al-Shabab militants have been active in Somalia for more than 15 years. (Al Shabaab video) Al-Shabaab—al-Qaeda’s largest, wealthiest, and most kinetically active cell—has posed a critical threat to ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - The terrorist group Al Shabaab still remains a real security threat to Kenyan and East African security agencies, according to the latest report by the UN Monitoring Group. It warns ...

AADAN YABAAL, Somalia - Al-Shabaab militants yet again faced a series of losses on the frontlines after a major operation by security forces, organised and conducted by the Somali National Army (SNA), ...

Buried under the dizzying headlines about Iran and Israel, many may miss that the head of the largest terrorist organization in Africa was recently eliminated by American-supported forces. Despite ...

This is a guest post by Aala Abdelgadir, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relation’s Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative. On October 16, 2011, the Kenyan army, in an ...

Somalia's National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), working with international partners, has killed a senior Al-Shabaab commander in an operation carried out outside the town of Saakow in the ...

Somalia's National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), with support from international partners, has carried out a targeted operation that destroyed major Al-Shabaab facilities in the Arabow area ...