Somalian Islamists al-Shabab name Sheikh Ahmad Umar as successor to leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, who was killed in a US recent air strike.

Ahmed Abdi Godane, a founder of Somalia's al-Shabab group, was killed in a US air strike this week, Pentagon says.

The Pentagon confirmed on Friday that Ahmed Godane, a founder of the al Shabaab Islamist group, was killed in a US air strike in Somalia this week, calling it a major symbolic and operational loss for ...

[White House]Washington, DC -Today, the Department of Defense confirmed that Ahmed Godane, the leader of al-Shabaab, is dead as a result of a U.S. military targeted airstrike in Somalia undertaken over...

A hail of US missiles aimed at the leader of Somalia?s al-Shabaab militants may have left a gaping hole in the group?s leadership, and potentially the biggest challenge to its unity since it emerged as...

[Garowe Online]Beledweyne -Suspected Al Shabaab militants launched attack on Somali Government and Djibouti forces base in the outskirts of Hiraan regional capital of Beledweyne of central Somalia over...

[Garowe Online]Garowe -The President of Somalia's Northeastern State of Puntland Dr. Abdiweli Mohamed Ali Gaas has returned to the state capital of Garowe after over a week-long visit to the United Ara...

The US military says it has carried out air strikes in Somalia, targeting the leader of militant group al-Shabab, but it is unclear if he was killed.

[VOA]Nairobi -The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says more than 1 million Somalis are in need of humanitarian assistance, and at least 200,000 children under the age of five are acute...

Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab rebels are tight-lipped over the fate of their leader, a day after a US air strike against senior members of the Islamist militia....