A movement with roots in the Mweni community of coastal Cabo Delgado, al-Shabaab—as the group is locally called, though is also known as Islamic State-Mozambique—leveraged widespread ...

CABO DELGADO, Mozambique-Anita sits on a woven mat, her legs straight out on the ground before her. She speaks in a quiet but ...

Recent academic research, included in this week's Mozambique News Reports and Clippings newsletter, found that early members of the group, sometimes also called al-Sunna, were followers of a ...

Northern Mozambique is in the grips of an insecurity crisis due to armed attacks on civilians by the al-Shabab armed group. Meanwhile, extreme weather events such as storms have also hit the same ...

Somali security forces said they killed several Islamic State fighters and seized eight jihadist outposts during ongoing military operations in the semi-autonomous Puntland region.

Shabaab’s statement announcing the death of Mohamed Mire. Earlier today, Shabaab, Al Qaeda’s branch for East Africa, publicly announced the death of Mohamed Mire, one of the group’s senior-most ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Al-Shabaab, the Al-Qaeda-linked militant group in Somalia, has confirmed the death of Mohamed Mire, a key figure who was designated a terrorist leader by the United States in 2022 ...