An operation in central Somalia in 2021 illustrated Danab’s capacity to succeed even without U.S. boots on the ground. Acting on a tip from a resident, Danab soldiers say they arrested a man ...

Somali National Army’s Danab commandos, international allies, eliminates senior al-Shabaab operatives, Defense Ministry says ...

A helicopter belonging to the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM), has crashed at ...

Somali Danab 2nd Lt. Abdirahim Muse Mohamed, a Somali Special Forces platoon commander, provides instruction to multinational partners at the Counter Insurgency Terrorism & Stability Operations ...

U.S. troops are back in Somalia and scrambling to help its special forces After Trump’s pullout, al-Shabab militants grew in strength and size. December 10, 2022 More than 2 years ago ...

U.S. Special Forces parachuted overnight into Somalia from fixed-wing planes, then advanced on foot to a compound holding two kidnapped international aid workers and freed them, U.S. officials ...

Terrified victims leapt from windows as Somali special forces stormed a Mogadishu hotel where Muslim extremists from Al-Shabaab mounted a deadly attack Friday, first exploding a car bomb at the ...

Three Somali special forces soldiers were killed and a U.S. officer was seriously wounded in a car bomb on Monday outside the force's base in the country's south, a regional Somali government ...

Somali special forces killed 37 Al-Shabaab militants, including senior commanders, in a coordinated overnight operation in the southern village of Maqooqaha, the army said Sunday. The assault, led by ...

Thirty years ago today, the U.S. military was involved in a brief but brutal battle in Somalia. In a series of firefights over two bloody days, 18 members of America’s most elite Special Forces ...

Al-Shabab’s Ramadan offensive in March coincided with reduced U.S. support for Somali special forces — a 2,500-strong unit known as the Danab brigade — which has traditionally led the fight ...

Somali Danab soldiers await their next orders during urban operations training at Justified Accord 2 024 (JA24) in Nanyuki, Kenya Feb. 28, 2024. JA24 is U.S. Africa Command's largest exercise in ...