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GARISSA, Kenya (AP) – Al-Shabab gunmen rampaged through a university in northeastern Kenya at dawn Thursday, killing 147 people in the group’s deadliest attack in the East African country. Four ...

Kenya is striking back against Somalia's al-Shabaab Islamic militants who killed 148 people at Garissa University College. Victims' families are beginning to identify and collect the bodies of their ...

Armed with AK-47 rifles, PKM machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and a directional mine, the attackers blew up the main gate and damaged sections of the perimeter wall in an apparent bid to force ...

The al-Shabab extremist group remains the greatest immediate threat to peace and stability in Somalia and the region, ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — A court in Kenya on Thursday sentenced two men to 30 years in prison for facilitating the 2019 attack on a Nairobi luxury hotel complex that left 21 people dead. The court heard that ...

NAIROBI, KENYA: Al-Shabaab, the Islamist militant group that has claimed responsibility for Westgate attack may have succeeded in eliciting the kind of response it needed to mobilise sympathisers in ...

Last year, al-Shabab attacked a U.S. military base inside Somalia, Baledogle, that is used to launch drone strikes but reportedly failed to make their way inside. The extremist group also has carried ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Kenya has every right to pursue al Shabaab rebels in Somalia, but Somali government troops must be in charge of operations against the Islamist rebels, Somalia's prime minister ...

A swanky, high-end mall in Nairobi is the site of a deadly standoff between Kenyan forces and fighters linked to the al-Qaeda-backed Somali terror group al-Shabab. On ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Shabaab rebels called on Thursday for supporters in Kenya to carry out a major strike in retaliation for a 12-day military incursion by east Africa's powerhouse.