Seven people, including two MPs, are killed in a suicide attack in central Somalia, which the al-Shabab group says it carried out.

At least 12 people are killed and dozens injured as a bomb explodes in a market area of the central Somalia town of Baidoa.

An air strike in al-Shabab-held southern Somalia kills four people, including three foreigners, eyewitnesses tell the BBC.

[Egypt Online] Egypt is keen on promoting the Arab and Islamic role in resolving the problems facing Somalia, especially to fight terrorism and achieve reconciliation...

Somali militant group Al-Shabaab says it has banned the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from operating in the areas of the southern Somalia it controls. The ICRC is believed to be the ...

Ethiopian and Somali troops capture Baidoa, a strategic stronghold of al-Shabab Islamist militants, as the UN approves extra African Union troops for Somalia.

Ethiopian and Somali troops have taken a strategic stronghold of Islamist militants in south-western Somalia.

Somalia's Islamist al-Shabab militants ban the Red Cross from operating in areas its controls, accusing it of betraying trust and handing out unfit food.

The UN Security Council is expected to vote to increase the African Union's peacekeeping force in Somalia by more than 5,000 soldiers, diplomats say.

The head of Somalia's Olympic committee and its football chief are among eight people killed in a bomb attack on a high-profile event in Mogadishu.