The UN Security Council on Friday gave the green light to a new African Union force in Somalia that is meant to take on the Islamist armed group Al-Shabaab, with the soldiers due to deploy in January.

Somalia, situated on the east coast of Africa, has spent much of the past three decades grappling with internal strife ...

The United Nations has given the green light for a new African peacekeeping mission to tackle the al-Qaida-linked group ...

The US military said Thursday it had killed two members of the jihadist Al-Shabaab" group in Somalia in an airstrike.

The United States military said Thursday it carried out an airstrike in southern Somalia, killing two members of the Al-Qaeda ...

Ethiopia has been fighting Al-Shabaab in Somalia since the first AU-led mission (AMISOM) began in 2007. AMISOM was ...

In a resolution was adopted by 14 votes in favor, with one abstention (the United States) and no votes against, the council ...

This will provide the international community with adequate time to discuss the best response to the militant group.

Dozens of Al-Shabaab operatives, affiliated with Al-Qaeda in Somalia, have arrived in the provinces of Hodeidah and Abyan ...

The UN Security Council on Friday adopted a resolution to authorize the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia AUSSOM from Jan ...

The counterterrorism operation launched by the Puntland State Defence Force against ISIS and affiliated groups in… Sii akhri ...