Five local Kenyan officials have been released from captivity, Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen said on Monday, two months after they were kidnapped by suspected Islamist gunmen in the northeast ...

No group has claimed responsibility, but an official said the attack followed a pattern of raids by Islamist militant group al-Shabab.

Criminal investigators in Kenya have concluded a probe into the death of a woman who was last seen alive in the company of ...

Kenyan police say armed militants from Somalia have raided a Kenyan police camp near the border, killed six reservists and seized weapons NAIROBI, Kenya -- Armed militants from Somalia raided a ...

Five local officials in Kenya have been freed two months after being kidnapped by suspected al Shabaab militants in Mandera, ...

A Kenya-registered cargo aircraft operated by Trident Aviation Ltd has crashed in the Jasiira settlement near Mogadishu, ...

Africa’s most lethal terrorist organization is expected to gain strength in Somalia, raising the security threat through a ...

A German nurse who was abducted while working in Somalia seven years ago has pleaded with the German government to secure her ...

Most of them currently are training more than 1,000 Kenyan soldiers a year before their deployment to neighboring Somalia to combat al-Qaida’s longtime East Africa affiliate, al-Shabab.

Local media reported that al Shabaab had taken the chiefs across the border into Somalia. Murkomen said the chiefs were in the hands of Kenyan officials and that they would be "arriving home any ...