April 4, 2012. A day that will forever be etched in Al Shabaab history as their day of reckoning. What was supposed to be Al Shabaab’s best planned attack on a Kenya Defence Force (KDF) position in ...

Last week, after months of speculation and dubious reports about his fate, Omar Hammami – the American commander and erstwhile media face of al-Shabaab – left the jihadist group. In an interview with ...

The New York Times reported earlier this month that recent gains by al-Shabaab Islamist militants in central and southern Somalia has prompted a debate within the State Department about closing the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - The level of Al-Shabaab infiltration in the Somali National Army (SNA) could be alarming, former Chief of Defence Forces General Ibrahim Sheikh Muhyiddin has said, noting that the ...

The United Nations security council unanimously voted on 15 August 2024 to extend the mandate of the 12,626 men and women of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (Atmis). The African ...

The U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program, which is administered by the Diplomatic Security Service, is increasing its reward offers to up to $10 million each for information ...

We have seen this movie before with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Now its sequel is playing out to devastating effect in Somalia. Al-Shabaab — a Salafi Jihadist confederation — is rapidly securing ...

The cover of the latest edition of AQAP’s Sada al-Malahem magazine. In the latest issue of its Sada al-Malahem magazine, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) heaped significant praise on recent ...

An indictment was unsealed in federal court today charging Jehad Serwan Mostafa, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and former San Diego resident who is on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List, with terrorism ...