al Shabaab

The U.S. military will still be able to carry out counterterrorism strikes within Somalia.

'The U.S. service member is in stable condition and receiving treatment for injuries that are not assessed to be life-threatening.'

"Despite continued U.S. airstrikes in Somalia ... al Shabab appears to be a growing threat."

AFRICOM claims that the al-Shabaab leader they killed in an airstrike last month was likely Bashir Mohamed Mahamoud, who may have played a role in the deadly Manda Bay attack.

The U.S. military in Africa claims it killed a senior leader of al-Shabaab in an airstrike on Saturday, nearly two months after an attack in Manda Bay, Kenya that left one U.S. soldier and two American contractors dead

"This is yet another example of the lies, propaganda and fake news coming from al-Shabaab and other malign actors such as Iran and its proxies"

AFRICOM said it did not suspect the Sunday attack was linked to Iranian retaliation

A U.S. service member and two Defense Department contractors were killed during an attack on a Kenyan military base on Sunday, U.S. Africa Command announced in a statement

Al Shabaab, an Islamist militant group, has launched a string of complex attacks in the past two months on Somali security forces, African Union peacekeepers and — on Monday — European Union and U.S. forces

As the United States wages a protracted war in Afghanistan and a 16-year-long Global War on Terror that has received...