The militant Islamist group known as al-Shabab is deepening control over much of south and central Somalia and parts of the country's capital Mogadishu, posing threats to the U.S.-backed government in Somalia and the United States itself.
A report from Somalia's capital Mogadishu describes how children, as young as 9, are carrying assault rifles and operating checkpoints for Somalia's Transitional Federal Government.
Somalia has suffered from nearly two decades of civil war, piracy and now fighting between government forces and an Islamist rebel group called al-Shabab.
The U.N. World Food Program announced Tuesday that it is suspending its work in portions of southern Somalia because of threats to its staff and "unacceptable demands" by armed groups.
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota on Monday announced charges against eight more people in an ongoing investigation into young Somali-Americans leaving the United States to fight with a terror group in Somalia. Margaret Warner reports.
Secretary of State Clinton spent the second day of her African tour expressing support for the fragile transitional government in Somalia. Margaret Warner reports on the visit, and the risks posed by the Somali government's struggles to combat extremist groups…
U.S. war planes killed the suspected head of al-Qaida in Somalia and as many as 30 other people Thursday in an overnight airstrike, a U.S. defense official said. The head of the Islamic insurgent group confirmed the attack killed its…
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