The Houthis’ alleged support for Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia remains limited at this stage, although it is nonetheless ...

The Somali government has said that a total of 131 people have been killed in attacks by the Al-Shabaab militant group in 2014, representing a considerable drop in the death toll since 2006. "Most of ...

Less than a week after the US government issued a travel warning for Ethiopia, the East African country’s National Intelligence service claimed to have arrested 25 suspected terrorists during a ...

For over a decade, the Somali-based terrorist group al-Shabaab has prioritised media engagement as a critical component of its propaganda and recruitment efforts. In recent years, the group has ...

“There is a genuine, robust tax base. You can call it extortion, you can call it what you want, but it’s there, it’s real, and it works,” says Matt Bryden, a Canadian political analyst who has worked ...

Beneath its expansionist rhetoric, the Somali jihadi group al-Shabaab has abandoned its transnational goals to focus on local issues. For Somalia, this is might actually be good news. With the Somali ...

A new report alleges that Minnesota taxpayer money has been diverted through fraud schemes and ended up funding Al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-linked terror group, raising ...

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 ...