Al-Shabab, an al-Qaida-linked Islamic extremist group that has carried out many attacks in Somalia, claimed responsibility for the assault on the hotel, which is popular with Somali government ...

Al-Shabab often attacks hotels and government buildings. Al-Shabaab claimed that the home of a senior army officer also contained members of the Macawisley militia who had been wounded in the ...

At least two soldiers are believed to have died and an unspecified number of other people were injured in the attack according to the resident. The al-Shabab militant group immediately claimed ...

Security officers patrol near the destroyed Hayat Hotel after a deadly 30-hour siege by al-Shabab militants in Mogadishu ... and carried out devastating attacks while exploiting clan divisions ...

At least five people were killed and 11 others wounded, including a regional governor, in a suicide attack on Tuesday in southern Somalia, police said, a bombing claimed by Al-Shabaab militants.

The Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab group later claimed responsibility for the attack, asserting that seven ... day after twin blasts rocked a Mogadishu hotel, injuring at least four people.

However, it has carried out attacks outside of Somalia, including in Ethiopia and Kenya. al-Shabaab was responsible for the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi, where four gunmen killed ...

Officials in Somalia say an al-Shabab attack on a military base in the south of the country has been "repulsed.” The deputy president of Jubaland state, Mohamud Sayid Aden, told VOA Somali that ...

The Somali National Army (SNA) thwarted an attack by members of Al-Shabaab movement, linked to Al-Qaeda, on the SNA base in Runir-god district in Middle Shabelle region. The army managed to repel ...