On Boxing Day 2006, Ethiopian troops, endorsed by the United States, rolled into Mogadishu. Their intervention, aimed at crushing the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) and installing “a weak, decentralised ...
The offensive al-Shabaab launched in late February 2025 marks its most ambitious push in years, reversing government gains and reasserting control in swathes of central and southern Somalia. The rapid ...
The US Justice Department last week sentenced an al-Shabaab-linked terrorist to two life sentences in prison for multiple crimes, including "conspiring to murder US nationals, commit aircraft piracy, ...