Much has changed for Mukhtar “Abu Mansur” Robow, a key founding member of the Somali jihadist organization al-Shabaab, over the past decade. In November 2008, al-Shabaab was sweeping across southern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sheikh Muktar Robow Abuu Mansuur, a senior official of the Al-Shabaab group, walks along the frontline, north of Mogadishu By Abdi ...

MOGADISHU – A former deputy leader of the al-Shabab extremist group has been named a government minister by Somalia’s new administration in what some call a chance to persuade fighters to denounce ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Former Al-Shabaab deputy leader Mukhtar Robow says he too has human compassion and has lost close family members to Al-Shabaab since he denounced the group's extremism ideologies ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Last year Mukhtar Robow had a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head. Now the former Islamist al Shabaab militant has downed his guns and donned the garb of a democrat. While Robow is ...

Former deputy leader of the Al-Shabab Mukhtar Robow. [AP] A former deputy leader of the al-Shabab extremist group has been named a government minister by Somalia's new administration in what some call ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - African Union peacekeepers did not help in the arrest of a former al Shabaab leader that led to clashes in which 11 people were killed, the AU force said, following a report that ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Mukhtar Robow was given the post of religious affairs minister, the government of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said Tuesday. Not all Somalis supported his ministerial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A former deputy leader of the al-Shabab extremist group has been named a government minister by ...