NAIROBI, Kenya — Growing evidence suggests a strengthening alliance between Somalia-based Al-Shabaab militants and Yemen’s Houthi rebels, significantly escalating threats to maritime traffic and ...

According to the Yemeni news site Yemen Shabab, in the week of July 27 alone, 13 “teachers, mosque imams, and other respected figures” were detained in Taiz Governorate. The week prior, another ...

To further pressure businessmen, the Houthis have also resorted to kidnapping, according to Yemen Shabab. In one instance, the terrorist group kidnapped a store’s employee to force the owner to pay.

Air Force Brig. Gen. Dagvin Anderson, has pledged to keep American forces engaged in Somalia but signaled a potential strategic shift, warning of a dangerous new front: growing cooperation between ...

Soldiers and militiamen killed over 120 Al Shabab attackers. In Yemen the Houthi clan militia, supported by Iran has been increasingly active firing Iranian missiles and drones at commercial shipping.

The strikes came after Israel launched airstrikes in retaliation for a Houthi missile strike the previous day on Israel's international airport.

The fighting is being mostly carried out by forces in the semi-autonomous Puntland region and it has been substantial, as soldiers in this remote area have faced obstacles including harsh terrain, ...

Somalia's hardline Islamist rebel group al Shabaab said on Friday it was ready to send reinforcements to al Qaeda in Yemen should the U.S. carry out retaliatory strikes, and urged other Muslims to ...

Human traffickers use the Puntland region to send refugees across the Gulf of Aden over to Yemen, and Rage said that hundreds of Al-Shabab fighters are trying to blend in with that human ...