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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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....

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

1965), also known as Fuad Shangole, is a Somali-Swedish militant who is a senior member of Al-Shabaab. Working as a cleric in Sweden during the 90s and early...

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

and al-Sham (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group. IS gained global prominence in 2014, when its militants conquered...

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...

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

Ubaidah al-Somali, is the Emir of Somalia’s Islamist group Al-Shabaab. Diriye became head of the organization following the death of the Al-Shabaab's leader...

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

ever Mayor of Qoryoley District. Qoriyoley District Garre Jiiddo Al-Shabaab (militant group) "Gunfight between clan militias erupts in south Somalia's Qoryoley...

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...

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...

Al-Shabaab founded in Las Anod. June 10: The Guardian reports "An unnamed network run by one of Aweys's protégés, Aden Hashi Farah "Ayro" is linked to...