Sources: BBC
At least 50 combatants are killed after fighting between Al-Shabaab and the Somali National Army and allied Ma'awisley militias in the Hiiraan and Middle Shabelle regions of Hirshabelle state, Somalia. 2025-02-1
A suicide bombing at a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills at least seven people and injures at least six others. Islamic terrorist group al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack. 2024-10-17
Al-Shabaab raids Yeed and Aato in Bakool, Somalia, near the Ethiopian border. Fourteen Ethiopian police officers and three civilians are killed. 2022-07-20
Six people are killed and twenty others injured after an al-Shabaab suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in Kismayo, Somalia. The target of the attack is suspected to be a local politician. 2020-09-11
A Somalian regional government demands an explanation from the United States after an airstrike kills 22 civilians and other soldiers instead of the targeted Al-Shabaab militants in Galmudug. 2016-10-1
Al-Shabaab says it has killed at least 60 Ethiopian soldiers in an attack on an AMISOM base in central Somalia. 2016-06-9
The first of seventy British military personnel arrive in Somalia to help combat the threat of Islamist militants. The remaining troops will join the United Nations peacekeepers and AMISOM soldiers in countering Al-Shabaab later on this year. This deployment is part of a greater effort by the United Kingdom to target terrorism. 2016-05-2
Ethiopian forces capture the central Somali town of Beledweyne from al-Shabaab Islamist militants. 2011-12-31
Ethiopia and Kenya may attack the al-Shabaab Islamist militant group in Somalia, following its threat to target Kenya. 2011-02-28
Al-Shabaab militants take control of a town on the border between Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya from pro-government forces, following fighting that displaced 60,000 people. 2010-10-29