The Latest Breaking News from AlShabab

Government officials frequently use the Villa Rosa hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu for meetings.

Somalia’s government said Saturday that a military operation in the country’s Lower and Middle Shabelle and Hiran regions killed more than 100 extremist al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab militants. Somalia’s deputy information minister Abdirahman Yusuf Omar Adala said the operation took place on the outskirts of the village of El-Dhere at the…

Kenyan military official said a lone attacker fired indiscriminately, wounding five soldiers, before he was gunned down.

Despite objections from Somali government, Security Council voted to maintain sanctions regime over al-Shabab threat.

US seeks information leading to disruption of Somalia-based group’s finances as it intensifies attacks.

Suicide bomber kills five and wounds 11 others in attack on military training camp in Mogadishu, state media reports.

The Treasury Department has announced sanctions against a weapons trafficking network affiliated with the Islamic State group in Somalia and the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group, which are accused of carrying out deadly terrorist acts on civilians including car bombings

The people who were killed included “mothers carrying children, fathers seeking medical treatment, students going to study and businessmen working to feed their families,” President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

Somalia’s health minister says the death toll from a pair of car bombings in the capital two days ago has reached 120 and could rise further because some people are still missing