Terrorist group al-Shabaab is expanding territory across Somalia and increasingly working with Iran-backed Houthi militants ...

Africa’s most lethal terrorist organization is expected to gain strength in Somalia, raising the security threat through a ...

Shabaab, now coordinating with Yemen’s Houthis, poses a heightened terror threat. He recalls the January 2025 New Orleans ...

Some State Department officials have proposed closing the embassy in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, as a precaution after ...

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As Donald Trump intensifies military actions against Yemen’s Houthi leaders, experts warn of growing collaboration between the Houthis and Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab. In June 2024, US ...

American warplanes launched a new round of airstrikes against multiple targets in Yemen controlled by Houthi ... in Somalia in recent weeks targeting al-Shabab militants, and strikes in Syria ...

The Somali intelligence agency announced on Saturday that more than 80 terrorists, including senior al-Shabaab operatives, have been killed during week-long operations against the al-Qaeda ...

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