Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (Arabic: حركة الشباب المجاهدين, romanized: Ḥarakat ash-Shabāb al-Mujāhidīn, lit. Youth Mujahideen Movement), commonly...

abroad to train with other militant groups. The precise origins of al-Shabaab are not clear. Most accounts trace the group's emergence to 2013 or 2014...

On 20 July 2022, the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab launched an invasion from Somalia into Ethiopia's Somali Region. Taking advantage of the instability...

citizen who was a member and leader in the Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabaab. A federal warrant for his arrest was issued in 2007. In November 2012...

Mukhtar Abu Zubair, was a Somali militant leader who was the Emir (leader) of Al-Shabaab, an Islamist militant group based in Somalia. Godane, who received...

previously known as Al Shahab Al-Shabaab (militant group), a Somalia-based militant Islamist group aligned with Al-Qaeda Ash-Shabab al-Mu'min, a Zaidi Shia...

leader and former spokesman of the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab. In 2015, he defected from Al-Shabaab due to ideology issues after years of hiding...

Ali Dheere, is the head spokesman for the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab, and a member of the group’s supreme council. Accounts of Ali Mohamed Rage's...

with Harakat Al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen carried out a mass shooting for over 22 hours which left 21 civilians, one Kenyan soldier and all five militants dead. Al-Shabaab...

security watch-lists, Atom has been tied to the Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab group of Islamist militants that is waging war against Somalia's Transitional...

from the militant Islamist organization al-Shabaab. Allex was executed in response, and two French commandos, at least 17 Islamist militants and at least...

عيرو) (1976 – 1 May 2008) also known as Abu Muhsin al-Ansari was a military commander of Al Shabaab. He was from the Ayr sub-clan, part of the Habar Gidir...

Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was a public execution carried out by the Al-Shabaab militant group on 27 October 2008 in the southern port town of Kismayo, Somalia...

Islamic State in Somalia. He was formerly a senior religious authority in al-Shabaab. Born in Qandala, Puntland, Somalia to a Majerteen Ali saleeban parents...

killed in a terrorist attack presumed to have been conducted by Al-Shabaab (militant group) in Mogadishu, Somalia, on November 25, 2020. Goodboe was from...

On June 8, 2024, Al-Shabaab militants attacked four military bases and overran the town of El Dher for several hours, killing many soldiers of the Somali...

Al-Kataib Media Foundation (Arabic: الكتائب, romanized: al-kātaib, lit. 'The Battalion') is the official media wing of the insurgent group Al-Shabaab...

Somali military, AMISOM and the United States military against the Al-Shabaab militant group aimed at eliminating the remaining insurgent-held areas in southern...

During his years in high school, he was part of a small group called "Al-Wahdat al-Shabaab al-Islam", which advocated for Salafism and a pure interpretation...

1972), also known as Ahmad Umar or Abu Ubaidah al-Somali, is the Emir of Somalia’s Islamist group Al-Shabaab. He was listed by the U.S. State Department...

member of the Al-Shabaab insurgent group. It was launched in the southern town of Barawa, Somalia in October 2013. On 5 October 2013, Al-Shabaab spokesman...

Mombasa is a Pakistani member of the Somali militant paramilitary group al-Shabaab who serves as the group's chief of security and training operations....

recaptured it on June 1. In a press release by Al-Shabaab hours after the attack, the militant group claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming...

This article contains a timeline of events for the Somali militant group al-Shabaab. June 10: The Guardian reports "An unnamed network run by one of Aweys's...

On November 27, 2022, militants from Al-Shabaab stormed the Villa Rossa Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, holing themselves up in the facility until Somali...

Bilal al-Sudani, also known as Suhayl Salim Abd el-Rahman (died 25 January 2023) was a member of the al-Shabaab insurgency and later a member of Islamic...

The perpetrators were al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based Islamic extremist insurgent group. Approximately 30-40 al-Shabaab militants assaulted Camp Simba, which...

Somali human rights group Sultan Hurre Human Rights Focus also described him as a "senior leader" of ICU militant youth wing al-Shabaab. After the Ethiopian...

(born 28 December 1981), also known as Anwar al-Amriki, is an American-born senior leader in al-Shabaab, the al-Qaida affiliate in Somalia. Mostafa has been...

merged with several groups to form Hizbul Islam. In 2010, Hizbul Islam and Al-Shabaab merged, but disputes between Aweys and the Al-Shabaab leadership would...