Last week, after months of speculation and dubious reports about his fate, Omar Hammami – the American commander and erstwhile media face of al-Shabaab – left the jihadist group. In an interview with ...
WASHINGTON, USA – The United States may be quietly entering talks with the Al-Qaeda-linked militant group Al-Shabaab as part of a potential shift in its Somalia policy, a former U.S. government ...
US intelligence has learned of discussions between Houthis in Yemen to provide weapons to the Somali militant group al-Shabaab, in what three American officials described to CNN as a worrying ...
Minnesota’s Somali community has been sending millions of dollars every year to Somalia that have ended up in the hands of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic terror group ...
In June 2024, US intelligence uncovered discussions between Yemen’s Houthis and Somalia’s Al-Shabaab militants, signalling increased threats to East African stability. A February 2025 UN report ...
The United Nations security council unanimously voted on 15 August 2024 to extend the mandate of the 12,626 men and women of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (Atmis). The African ...
The seven members of the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC) have announced joint designations of 15 al-Shabaab leaders, operatives, and financial facilitators operating in Somalia. These ...
The offensive al-Shabaab launched in late February 2025 marks its most ambitious push in years, reversing government gains and reasserting control in swathes of central and southern Somalia. The rapid ...