East Africa

A drone strike in Somalia last week killed a senior al-Shebab figure linked to the notorious 2013 attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi, the US military said Wednesday. The...

An attack by suspected Somali gunmen on a convoy of a Kenyan state governor killed three police officers and a regional elder, a regional official said on Saturday. Al Shabaab...

The US military carried out an air strike against a senior al-Shebab militants in Somalia and is still reviewing the results of the operation, the Pentagon said Friday. The operation,...

Somalia's Shebab extremists killed at least 11 people and wounded many others Friday in an attack on a Mogadishu hotel while senior government officials were inside, police said. However, an...

Ahmed Adan said the strike targeted a convoy of Al-Shabaab top leaders near Dinsoor, a town in the southwestern Bay region of Somalia A top leader of the Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab...

China has officially reopened its embassy in Somalia and accredited a new ambassador to the horn of Africa country recovering from years of conflict. China, like other nations, closed its...

Somali government troops backed by African Union forces have captured a key stronghold of al-Shabab Islamists, local officials say. The regional governor told the BBC that he was in the...

The militant group al-Shabaab has vowed revenge for the killing of its leader in a US airstrike on Somalia and named a successor, Al Jazeera reported. In a message given...

Al-Shabab’s top leader was in one of two vehicles hit on Monday night by a U.S. military strike, a member of the Somali Islamic extremist group said on Tuesday. The...