Al-Shabaab ƙunngiyar mayaka ce da ke da cibiya a Somalia . Ƙungiyar na neman kawar da Sufanci daga Somalia kuma tana yin adawa da ƙungiyoyin Sufi daban-daban. An amince da ita a matsayin kwayar al-Qaeda a shekarar 2012. The hukuma sunan kungiyar ne Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen ( Larabci: حركة الشباب المجاهدين‎ ). Yanzu ya zama reshen kungiyar ISIL. Sunanta larabci ne na Matasa. Wasu mutanen da ke Ƙungiyar Tarayyar kotunan Islama sun kafa Ƙungiyar al-Shabaab a 2006 ko 2007. Ƙungiyar tana bin koyarwar Wahhabi. Al-Shabaab na son ƙirƙirar daular Islama a yankin Afirka, da shiga cikin wasan zinare na golbal djihad . Al-Shabaab tana iko da yankuna da dama na kudancin Somaliya. A yankin da yake iko da shi, akwai tsattsauran salon Shari'a . Ƙungiyar ta ɗauki alhakin wasu hare -haren ta'addanci da suka haɗa da harbe-harben kantin Westgate a 2013, Nairobi DusitD2 harin da aka kai a farkon 2019 a Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya da kuma harin Jami'ar Garissa wanda ya kashe mutane 142 a watan Afrilun 2015. Somalia rebel groups 'merge', in: Al Jazeera English, 25.