Seeking to impose its own harsh form of Islam, al Shabaab, wants to topple the Western-backed government in Mogadishu

 

 

 

 

 

  Al Shabaab Islamist militants attacked a government building housing two ministries in the Somali capital on Tuesday, killing at least 10...

  The Kenyan air force has destroyed two al Shabaab camps in Somalia, it said on Monday, in the first major military...

Kenya's Muslim community condemns the killing of nearly 150 students by masked al Shabaab gunmen and the country's foreign secretary...

Gunmen from the Islamist militant group al Shabaab stormed a university in Kenya and killed at least 147 people on Thursday, in...

 

 

 

The Solmali army regains control over an important coastal trading town, after al Shabaab militants flee the area.