Al-Shabaab

The government of Somalia announced over the weekend that Abdullahi Nadir, a Somali Islamist extremist and one of the co-founders of the Al Shabaab terror group, had been killed following...

Somalia is in the throes of its worst famine since 2011, but there is still time to avoid past mistakes and prevent further deaths and suffering. Quick action now can...

Twenty-one Somali citizens were killed and an additional 117 wounded by Somalia’s Al-Shabaab terror group during a weekend attack on a hotel in Mogadishu, according to Somali health minister Ali...

More than 200,000 Somalis are thought to be at risk of starvation in the coming year as the country’s drought worsens and food prices continue to increase, according to the...

The Somali government announced on Sunday that Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Somalia’s president from 2012 to 2017, had been elected to his former office—potentially ending a year-long crisis that saw escalating...

While all eyes remain on Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, an insidious spread of terror activity threatens to destabilize the entire Horn of Africa. In the last year and a...

Observers could be forgiven for thinking these days that East Africa is on the verge of unraveling. An ongoing conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray province is affecting the entire region, with...

The United States has used airstrikes against al-Shabaab forces in Somalia since January 2007, including armed drone strikes from June 2011. From early 2017, Donald J. Trump’s administration loosened the...

Long before the debacles of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Somalia was the quagmire that Western militaries would have loved to strike from their records. In the now-famous Black...

In the past five years, the Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab has lost most of its senior leadership, surrendered its control of southern Somalia, and seen its cash flow shrink. The group...