Insufficient operational coordination between local military officials and civilian administrators on stabilization functions ...

The Somali region’s leaders vow to keep pressure on the IS hub, which is seen as a key spoke in the Islamic State network ...

Reports: Somalia’s Mohamud Seeks Turkish Troops, Plans to Impose Emergency | Firstpost Africa | N18G Somali President Hassan ...

AFRICOM’s initial assessment is that multiple ISIS-Somalia operatives were killed and no civilians were harmed. ISIS-Somalia has proved both its will and capability to attack U.S. and partner forces.

We have seen this movie before with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Now its sequel is playing out to devastating effect in Somalia. Al-Shabaab — a Salafi Jihadist confederation — is rapidly ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The Department of Defence has significantly cut the budget for the Danab Special Forces, which could negatively impact the fight against Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia, given ...

4, forces from Somalia's Puntland region attacked Islamic ... forces are unable to maintain their pursuit. "Their mobile special forces have been the pointed end of the spear," said Samira Gaid ...

TASS/. Troops of the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) delivered strikes on positions held by the Islamic State terrorist group (outlawed in Russia) on the territory of Somalia. AFRICOM said on its ...

In an interview with VOA Somali, federal lawmaker Dahir Amin Jesow said local elders and government officials were meeting at the Qahira Hotel in central Somalia. “They attacked the hotel at ...

US special forces lashed out at Islamist militants in Libya and Somalia at the weekend, claiming to have captured a senior al-Qaida leader in Tripoli. Secretary of State John Kerry said today that the ...

Somali Foreign Minister Ahmed Moallim Fiqi held a phone conversation with his Serbian counterpart, Marko Đurić, to discuss ...