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

U.S. officials say now-suspended programs across Africa were designed specifically to respond to national security threats and contain the spread of terrorism.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Somalia and Egypt announced Sunday that the two countries have agreed to cooperate in the fight against the al-Shabaab terrorist group. In a statement, the Somali Defense Ministry said Egypt is ...

Over 20 people were killed and more than 10 others wounded during two days of fighting between Islamic State fighters and security forces from Somalia’s Puntland region, officials said Tuesday.

Image A U.S. Special Operations commander speaking to Somali soldiers at the military base in Baledogle, Somalia.Credit...Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi for The New York Times The strikes on Saturday also ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military has conducted airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Donald Trump's second term.