Somalia’s al-Shabab fighters have taken full control of the southern town of Hudur after Ethiopian troops vacated the town, residents say.

At least two people have been killed and several wounded in two massive explosions that targeted a restaurant on the popular beachfront of Somalia's capital city, Mogadishu.

African Union (AU) troops along with Somali government forces have taken control of the town of Burhakaba, a former stronghold of al-Shabab fighters.

At least two people have been killed and two others injured in a car bomb explosion in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, police officials say.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has set plans to feed 1.6 million people in Somalia, who are in a dire need of food, Press TV reports.

A car bomb attack in Somalia’s central region of Galkayo has claimed the lives of at least five people, including the attacker, police say.

The Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) say they have killed dozens of al-Shabab militants in an airstrike on the militia’s logistical base in southern Somalia.

At least six people, including security forces, have been killed and several others wounded in a bomb explosion outside the Somali prime minister's office in Mogadishu, officials say.

Unknown gunmen have shot dead a journalist in Somalia in the latest of a string of fatal attacks targeting members of media in the lawless Horn of Africa nation, Press TV reports.

Somalia’s al-Shabab fighters say they have executed a French secret agent after an operation by French commandoes failed to free the man held by the group for three years.

Somalia’s al-Shabab fighters say they have decided to execute a French intelligence agent they took hostage in the country, days after a failed attempt by French troops to rescue him, Press TV reports.

The al-Shabab militant group in Somalia says a second French soldier captured during a failed hostage rescue operation has died of his wounds in the African country.

Somali witnesses say at least eight civilians were killed in a recent botched operation carried out by French troops to free an intelligence agent held hostage in Somalia.

Somali pirates have released three Syrian hostages after more than two years of captivity, the Somali government has confirmed.

Somali al-Shabab militants have killed two French commandos involved in a botched operation to free a French secret agent taken hostage in the African country more than three years ago.

Somalia has issued an ultimatum of 100 days for al-Shabab militants to lay down their arms and join the process of peace and building the nation, Press TV reports.

A total of 22 hostages, who used to be held by pirates for about three years, have been freed by forces from Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region.

The Somali president has arrived in Nairobi, where he is expected to hold talks with Kenyan officials over the issue of Somali refugees in Kenya, Press TV reports.

At least 55 people are feared dead after their overcrowded boat sank off the coast of Somalia, the United Nations says.

The United Nations and the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) have sent a team to southern Somalia to assess the humanitarian situation there, Press TV reports.

Somali government forces and African Union (AU) troops have taken control of Jawhar in central part of the war-torn country, after they launched operations against al-Shabab militants, Press TV reports.

At least 27 al-Shabab militants have been killed and 40 others wounded during the recent battle between security forces and the group in southern Somalia, Press TV reports.

At least 15 people have been killed in a bomb explosion that ripped through a market in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, Press TV reports.

At least a dozen people have been killed in clashes between the Somali government forces and al-Shabab fighters in the southern part of the country.

At least 20 people have been killed and several others injured in double bomb attacks, which rocked port city of Kismayo in southern Somalia, Press TV reports.

Somali government forces and African Union (AU) troops have taken control of key areas in southern part of the war-torn country, after they launched operations against al-Shabab militants, Press TV reports.

At least 10 people have been killed and 15 others injured after al-Shabab militants carried out ambush attacks at a Somali military base in the capital Mogadishu, Press TV reports.

Somalia’s al-Shabab fighters are moving north into the semi-autonomous Puntland region after foreign-backed government forces seized their strongholds further south.

Clashes between Somali government troopers and al-Shabab fighters in southern Somalia have killed at least 18 of the forces and 21 of the fighters, Press TV reports.

The UN Security Council has extended the mandate of the African Union peacekeepers in Somalia as the council remains divided on lifting an arms embargo on the country.

A blast has hit an area in the Somali capital city of Mogadishu near the country’s parliament building, killing at least one person.

Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid says that the country's new government has been formed, with his cabinet including two women for the first time, Press TV reports.

Two consecutive bomb attacks have injured several people at a restaurant in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, police sources report.

Some 400 people have been apprehended in a major security operation in the Somali port city of Kismayo, which was al-Shabab fighters’ last major bastion before they withdrew in September.

Gunmen have shot dead a Somali journalist and radio comedian in the south of the country's capital, Mogadishu Press TV reports.

A Somali radio journalist has died of his injuries in a hospital in the capital Mogadishu, days after unknown gunmen shot him, colleagues say.

Clashes between al-Shabab fighters and Somalia’s military forces have claimed the lives of at least 11 troops including a senior army Colonel, Press TV reports.

At least six civilians have been killed after their vehicle was targeted in Somalia’s southern region of Shabeellaha Dhexe, where African Union (AU) forces are battling al-Shabab militants.

Gunmen have shot dead a journalist in Somalia’s northern town of Lasanod in the latest of a string of fatal attacks targeting members of media in the lawless Horn of Africa nation.

At least 62 al-Shabab militants have been arrested by African Union (AU) troops and Somali government forces during an operation in the northwest of Mogadishu, Press TV reports .