A senior commander of Somalia-based Islamist militant group al-Shabaab has been killed in an airstrike, according to local reports.
A telecoms company in Somalia says one of its workers was killed in a US airstrike on Monday.
At least 12 soldiers have been killed in al-Shabaab attacks at a military base in Somalia.
Four young children were shot dead by al-Shabaab gunmen on Tuesday, Kenyan authorities have announced.
Somalian authorities are installing security cameras along major roads in the capital of Mogadishu in the hope they will deter terrorist attacks in the volatile city.
Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta has said his country’s forces will remain part of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
At least three mortar bombs were fired at Mogadishu’s international airport, authorities have confirmed.
Almost a dozen Kenyan police officers were killed on Saturday by a roadside bomb near the border with Somalia.
The United States has reopened its embassy in Somalia, almost 30 years after closing it during the midst of civil war in the Horn of Africa nation.
The complexity of Somalia’s war on terror
It’s been 13 years since al-Shabaab was formed as a resistance group against the federal government of Somalia and the AU peacekeeping troops of AMISOM. Long before the rise of al-Shabaab, Somalia has suffered the plight of civil wars, clan-based
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