Africa’s most lethal terrorist organization is expected to gain strength in Somalia, raising the security threat through a Middle East choke point for commercial shipping, a new report cautions.

Al Shabaab fighters captured a town in central Somalia on Wednesday that government forces had been using as a staging area ...

Time for the terrorists to hide, but it won’t do them any good,' says Trump, touting Dan Caine, the new US military chief - ...

“We see the evidence of an [Somali] army in disarray and in retreat ... Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean from the shores of East Africa. Houthi rebels already present similar threats from Yemen, ...

Mogadishu, Somalia — A pirate group fired shots towards a bulker as part of a two-hour pursuit in the Gulf of Aden. The master of the unnamed Palau-flagged ship reported being followed by several ...

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Ecuador and Somalia, contracts for Afghanistan and Yemen aid remained cut. CNN has reached out to the State Department for comment. The drastic cuts to USAID and its funding over the past few ...

An airstrike by Somali forces killed 12 al Shabaab militants in central Somalia and another 35 Islamists were killed by the army in a southwestern area as they tried to attack a military base there, ...

Some State Department officials have proposed closing the embassy in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, as a precaution after ...

After its battlefield defeat, it’s unclear if the Islamic State in Somalia retains the ability to extort money from the ...

Reports have emerged that the United Arab Emirates has deployed an advanced radar system to northeastern Somalia, specifically to the Puntland Maritime Headquarters adjacent to the UAE-operated Bosaso ...