Al Shabab

Jason Spindler, a survivor of 9/11, died in al-Shabab's attack on a hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya.

Sanctions were imposed in 2009 for Eritrea's purported support of Al-Shabab in Somalia, but a report has found no conclusive evidence of ties.

The driver of the truck reportedly came from a town outside Mogadishu, where a U.S.-led raid mistakenly killed 10 civilians in August.

Washington has been fighting Al-Shabab for a decade in Somalia, but there's no end in sight.

The bombing, blamed on Al-Shabab, was the worst in Somalia's history, killing over 300 people.

China's new military base is just a few miles from the only permanent U.S. outpost in Africa.

Eritrea's navy also was placed under U.S. sanctions in April, after a shipment of military equipment from North Korea was found en route to the country.

Al-Shabab, which has ties to Al-Qaeda, is trying to oust the Western-backed government in Somalia.

The militants want to overthrow the Western-backed government in Mogadishu and implement an extremist version of Islam.

Some 50 U.S. citizens have tried to join Al-Shabab, which recently called President Trump a "brainless billionaire."

It's not the first time Al-Shabab has called out Trump.

Eritrea, dubbed Africa's North Korea, fought a border war with Ethiopia in the late 1990s in which 70,000 people died.

Decades of terrorism in Africa show that heavy-handedness is not the solution to a rising militant threat.

A U.N. report found that both al-Shabab and the Somali army have recruited children.

The al-Qaeda-linked group claimed to have held the soldier since September 2015.

Mohamed Dulyadin, a Kenyan national, planned the university attack that killed 148 people.

The Dadaab complex is hosting more than 300,000 Somali refugees.

AMISOM is expected to play a key role in securing Somalia from Al-Shabab.

Abdul Nadir Mumin defected from Al-Shabab to recruit fighters for ISIS in the failed state.

The blast hit a police station in Mogadishu on Wednesday morning.

The Somali militants detonated a suicide car bomb at the military base near the Kenyan border.

The DoJ says Maalik Alim Jones traveled to Somalia in 2011 to get training from the militant group.

Salim Mohamed Wabwire was a radical Muslim preacher and taught at a primary school near Mombasa.

The U.S. citizen had reportedly expressed sympathies for ISIS, a crime punishable by death within Al-Shabab.

Deaths included seven civilians who were hacked to death in a hospital

The pope will address President Kenyatta and visit a Nairobi slum while in Kenya.

The Somali group has historic ties to Al-Qaeda, but now ISIS is making a play for its support.