US strikes in Somalia kill 3 militants linked to al Qaeda

The U.S. this week carried out a strike in Somalia ... killed three militants with al Shabaab, an American-designated terrorist group with ties to al Qaeda. The Sunday strike targeted al Shabaab ... Read More

US air strike kills al-Shabaab commander with $10m bounty on his head

A US air strike has killed a senior commander of the al-Shabaab militant group who had a $10 million (£7.9 million) bounty on his head, Somalia’s ... when a group of 30 to 40 al-Shabaab ... Read More

Al Shabaab Launches Deadly Attack on Military Base in Somalia

Seven Somalia soldiers, including the commander of the base, and 10 al Shabaab fighters were killed in the fighting, he said. Some residents in the area told Reuters al Shabaab also burned ... Read More

Al-Shabaab Fighters Storm Somali Military Base

Fighters from ... territory in central Somalia in an operation backed by an AU mission known as ATMIS and US air strikes. But the offensive has suffered setbacks, with Al-Shabaab earlier this ... Read More

Uganda says 54 soldiers killed by al Shabaab in Somalia

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said on Saturday that 54 Ugandan peacekeepers were killed in an attack last week by militant group al Shabaab on a military base in Somalia. Museveni said the ... Read More

Several Al-Shabaab militants killed in Somalia

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Security forces in Somalia have killed several Al-Shabaab militants in central regions ... It is not clear who fired the drone strike but multiple international partners - at the ... Read More

Al-Shabaab strikes key town in central Somalia

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Heavy ... in casualties on the Al-Shabaab side. Local government officers faced the militants in the early morning battle. The fighting reportedly started after soldiers on patrol ... Read More

Two Al Shabaab commanders killed in Jilib, Somalia

Somalia: An air strike ... al Shabaab fighter who held a British passport. Another missile killed four foreign militants south of the Somali capital Mogadishu in February 2012. The US has a ... Read More

Top Al Shabaab commander killed by US strike

confirmed that the strike near Jilib killed one al-Shabab militant and said there were no civilian casualties. “This is another step to defeat the terrorist group that undermines Somalia’s pea ... Read More

Rescuers say Israeli strike kills two Lebanese civilians, including child

Local rescuers and official media said an Israeli strike killed a woman and a girl from the same family on Tuesday in Lebanon's south, where the Iran-backed Hezbollah group and Israel have exchanged ... Read More

Several al-Shabaab terrorists killed in Somalia

Reports suggest that 6 terrorists were killed during the operation. Al-Shabaab was formed in Somalia in 2004. By 2010, the group had established control over vast territories, but it had to withdraw ... Read More