A Lufthansa passenger plane hijacked in 1977 whilst flying from Mallorca to Frankfurt has been returned to Germany, Japan Times has reported. The plane was hijacked by The Popular...

Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland seized a boat loaded with weapons from Yemen in Saturday’s early hours, the regional maritime police chief said. Puntland authorities displayed dozens of anti-aircraft...

Two-hundred Somali refugees were arrested and detained in Yemen, the Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. Undocumented Somali refugees were arrested by Hadramaut police while travelling towards the Brom Mayfa district....

Russia plans to assist Somalia in its fight against terrorism, Somalia’s Garowe news site reported. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Somalia’s Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire in a...

Somalia’s southern autonomous region has sided with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates’ bloc against Qatar, local news site Garowe reported yesterday. President Sharif Hassan’s office of Southwest...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a report posted Monday on ReliefWeb that the number of internally displaced people in Yemen had reached nearly 2 million due...

Al-Shabaab has retaken a central town in Somalia following heavy fighting with government forces, All Africa news site reported yesterday. The Al-Qaeda affiliated fighters launched an attack on the...

At least four soldiers were killed and three others injured early Sunday when al-Shabaab militants attacked an army checkpoint in central Somalia, according to a police official. Hiiran Police...

The United States blasted three separate drone attacks in southern Somalia yesterday, killing six, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported. The precision drone strikes were executed at 02:15 local...

Three humanitarian aid workers were freed by Al-Shabaab in Somalia yesterday, the local Garowe news site reported. The aid workers were kidnapped by the armed group in July in...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees from entering the US to continue. In a one-sentence order, the top court said it would block...

The Somali army has regained control of a town attacked by Al-Shabaab fighters yesterday, Reuters reported. Somali forces have regained the Balad Hawo town, which left 30 Somali soldiers...

The Al-Shabaab armed group attacked a border town and ambushed a Somali military base killing 10, Reuters reported. Balad Hawo, a Somali border town near Kenya was attacked by...

At least 6 people died on Sunday after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant just outside a senior official’s office in the central Somali city of...

A Maryland man today pleaded guilty to conspiring to support the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, admitting that he travelled to Somalia to receive military training from the group. Maalik...

On 25 August, the United States alongside Somali forces conducted a counterterrorism raid on a village near Baiire, southern Somalia – lower Shabelle region, in search of Al-Shabaab fighters...