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 ...

The attack on a hotel in the heart of the heavily fortified ... who are skilled at complex operations against high level al Shabaab targets. They also enjoyed considerable support from the ...

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. A ...

The government and al Shabaab, which has in the past launched attacks on hotels, military bases and government establishments, often give differing casualty figures. Government forces and allied ...

Security officers patrol near the destroyed Hayat Hotel after a deadly 30-hour siege by al-Shabab militants in Mogadishu on Aug. 21, 2022. (Hassan Ali Elmi/AFP via ) MOGADISHU, Somalia — The United ...

In conjunction with clan militias, the national army has dislodged the Islamist insurgency Al-Shabaab from swathes of central ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...