Militants in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province are stepping up attacks in a clear sign of their resilience following the end ...

In the north of Mozambique, Al-Shabaab have waged a brutal insurgency since 2017, leading to beheadings, rapes, and burned villages, even as recent as reports dated 2024. The fight over liquified ...

Al Shabaab insurgents have seized the town of Tardo in Somalia's central Hiiran region and are pressing on with an advance that has already displaced thousands, a military official said.

The Somali Al-Shabaab group’s ability to rebound and recapture territory underscores the need to reinforce the government’s counterterrorism capacities.

It was later taken over by al Shabaab, which first rose up against the government in 2007 before pledging its allegiance to al Qaeda. “Haradhere and Galcad districts have been taken from the ...

Al-Shabaab had some origins connected to al-Qaeda and formally declared its allegiance to them in 2012. It currently functions as a clan-based terrorist group predominantly in south Somalia.

It comes only months after Al-Shabaab took the town of Adan Yabaal, also in the Hiraan region, and which was used as a base by Somali military commanders. More than 10,000 soldiers from the ...

It also began threatening the main roads linking Mogadishu with central Somalia. Al-Shabaab conducted several high-profile operations in the first third of 2025.