NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenya launched airstrikes against Islamic militants in Somalia following an extremist attack on a Kenyan college that killed 148 people, a military spokesman said Monday. Warplanes ...

Beyond the immediate devastation, the disaster highlights a bigger story, how Kenya, like much of East Africa, is being ...

GARISSA, Kenya — Kenyan authorities had intelligence that a university in Garissa could be attacked, but after the alarm sounded during last week’s massacre, the country’s rapid response team was ...

148 people were killed at a Kenyan college Thursday. —GARISSA, Kenya -- The son of a Kenyan government official has been identified as one of the gunmen who attacked a Kenyan college where 148 ...

Before an Easter Sunday service on April 5, a boy is searched for weapons in front of a Catholic church in Garissa, Kenya. Before an Easter Sunday service on April 5, a boy is searched for weapons in ...

Debora Patta is a CBS News senior foreign correspondent based in Johannesburg. Since joining CBS News in 2013, she has reported on major stories across Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Edward R.

The Kenya Meteorological Department had earlier warned Kenyans to brace for the short rains, which run from late October.

19-year-old Cynthia Cheroitich sits in a hospital ward in Garissa. Cheroitich said she hid in a large cupboard and covered herself with clothes, refusing to emerge even when some of her classmates ...

Scott Gration is the former U.S. Ambassador to Kenya and served with the U.S. Air Force as a Major General. At 9:50 p.m. on June 25, 1996, a powerful blast collapsed buildings and shattered windows in ...

They were sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, friends and fellow citizens. They were students and dreamers, pursuing their ambition for a better life. And on Tuesday night, Kenyans remembered ...

Hundreds joined a protest in the Kenyan town of Garissa against the Islamist group al-Shabaab on Friday, a day after the militants from neighboring Somalia stormed a nearby college campus and killed ...

Days after a horrific Al-Shabaab attack on its soil, Kenya launched airstrikes targeting the terror group in Somalia, according to a military source, who insisted the ...