The Post ventured to the front lines of an offensive against the Islamic State in northern Somalia, where foreign fighters are flowing in and cash is flowing out. BALIDHIDIN, Somalia — The dead ...

BALIDHIDIN, Somalia - The dead Islamic State fighter was sprawled out on the ridge, blood stains darkening in the sun, as a line of heavily armed Somali soldiers snaked down the mountainside to a ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — In a desolate makeshift camp on the fringes of Somalia’s capital, tens of thousands of internally displaced people sit under the baking sun not sure if they can have ...

MOGADISHU, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The Islamic State armed group attacked military bases in Somalia's northeastern Puntland state overnight with suicide car and motorbike bombs, but government forces ...

The Washington Post reported this week that the Islamic State terror group “has regrouped in Somalia — and has global ambitions.” On this week’s edition of ...

The United States military on Saturday conducted air strikes on Islamic State group targets in Somalia, President Donald Trump announced. "This morning I ordered precision Military air strikes on ...

An initial assessment by the Pentagon indicated that "multiple" operatives were killed but no civilians were harmed. The strikes mark the first attacks in the African nation during US President ...

Binti Ali Wardhere lost many members of her family in the fighting The expression Black Hawk Down, the title of a Hollywood film, has become shorthand for a 1993 US military disaster in Somalia.

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Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud speaks during an interview in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Feb. 20. (Feisal Omar/Reuters) The al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which operates in ...

CAIRO - Egypt and Somalia agreed to activate the military cooperation protocols that were signed in 2024, in yet another dramatic move which could interest Ethiopia, a country entangled in ...

Nairobi, Kenya — Somalia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dismissed as "fabricated" claims circulating on social media that Somali Ambassador to Kenya Jibril Abdulle had been recalled to ...