NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan troops in Somalia are heavily involved in the smuggling of about 150,000 tons of sugar a year into Kenya, a local watchdog group said Thursday. Kenyan soldiers and a ...

KISMAYO, Somalia - For the first time in as many years, Kenya's Chief of Defense Forces General Samson Mwathethe visited Somalia, a country struggling with instability and Al-Shabaab threat. During ...

Kenya is part of an African Union force that has been battling the Islamist rebels. Al Shabaab has often staged attacks in Kenya and has said it will continue to launch strikes until Kenyan forces ...

When political leaders call for the application of military force, it is a useful to assess the intended political and military objectives. Quite often, those objectives are reactionary, ephemeral, or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President William Ruto said that safety would not be compromised by the re-opening [Washington Post via Getty Images] Kenya's ...

"We fight because our cause is just, because we want to restore a productive peace in Somalia and we also wish to protect ourselves from an enemy that would seek to destroy us." The Islamist militants ...

(Reuters) - Kenya sent troops into Somalia in October in pursuit of insurgents that Kenya blames for a series of kidnappings on its soil and frequent cross-border assaults on its security forces.