BAIDOA, Somalia - Al-Shabab fighters seized control of a key town near Baidoa city, the regional capital of Bay after an overnight attack on army bases that left several soldiers dead, Garowe Online ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — The al-Shabab stronghold of Barawe, a coastal town in Somalia where U.S. Navy SEALs came ashore in a failed raid last weekend, is gripped by fear and tension as the insurgents ...

At least a dozen people, most of them soldiers, were killed in the fighting that began in late afternoon and lasted more than an hour in the town of Elwak. Defeated Somali troops retreated towards the ...

"The problem is that the government cannot keep control of the town and it does not want al Shabaab to rule it," said local elder Nur Ibrahim. The Islamist militant group Al Shabaab took control of a ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia, September 28 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has begun distributing relief supplies for some 24,000 displaced people in the Somali town of Afgooye. The distribution began on ...

Somali federal troops Monday entered the key city of Baidoa after clashes with forces loyal to the head of the region, whose mandate Mogadishu says expired four years ago. The fighting broke out about ...