Explosives experts are searching for possible booby-traps in the wreckage of Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall after a four-day bloodbath.

Osama bin Laden demanded European countries pull their troops out of Afghanistan and warned in a new audiotape of ”retaliation” against them.

US special forces carried out a revenge raid in Somalia that killed a top al-Qaeda commander high on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list.

Like many terror groups, al-Shabab uses Internet videos to draw disenfranchised young men into its fold.

United States President Barack Obama’s visit can help African democracy if he curbs a misguided US belief in security by military force.

Zam Zam Abdi fled after being threatened with death. If she continued working for her women’s rights organisation she would be killed.

A radical Islamic group has seized another Somali port town, consolidating its control over a south-western region that borders the Somali capital.

Islamist insurgents briefly seized control of Somalia’s biggest military airfield on Friday and looted weapons, witnesses and an Islamist commander said. Muktar Ali Robow, leader…

The military wing of Somalia’s Islamist movement plans to intensify its offensive against government troops and their Ethiopian allies, a senior commander said on Sunday. Muktar…