JOHANNESBURG, Dec 27: The U.S. military says it has killed 13 members of the al-Shabab extremist group with a new airstrike in southern Somalia.

KAMPALA, Uganda, July 31:  Uganda's military says 12 of its soldiers were killed in an ambush Sunday by al-Shabab Islamic extremists in southern Somalia.

NAIROBI, July 8: Al-Shabab extremists from neighboring Somalia beheaded nine civilians in an early-morning attack on a village in the southeast, Kenyan officials said Saturday, as concerns grew that the group had taken up a bloody new strategy.