At least three Somali government soldiers were killed and two wounded when a bomb blast targeted a security convoy on the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, officials...

Somalia-based al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab militants on Sunday attacked a US-Kenya military base located in the coastal town of Lamu, the Kenyan military confirmed. Kenyan defense forces announced it had successfully repulsed...

An unidentified foreign country was behind the recent truck bomb in the capital city of Mogadishu, the Somalia National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) announced yesterday. “An initial report...

Dozens of would-be North African migrants held in the central Prison in Taiz, south of Yemen, want to return to their homeland, saying that poverty forced them to leave....

A Turkish military cargo plane landed in the Somali capital on Sunday to evacuate people badly wounded in a devastating truck bombing in the city a day earlier that...

Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group al Shabaab regularly carries out such attacks in an attempt to undermine the government

A US Republican running for congress has called for Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to be hanged, according to the American newspaper the Tampa Bay Times. In a 26 November fundraising...

Turkey has donated aid to the Somalian people displaced by the floods in recent months, as reported by Anadolu Agency.  The assistance was delivered by the state-run Turkish Cooperation...

Artillery fired by the Saudi-led coalition forces yesterday evening hit a gathering of Somali and Ethiopian migrants in the border district of Monabeh in the Houthi-stronghold province of Saada,...

Heavy rains have killed at least ten people and displaced more than 270,000 in Somalia, the United Nations (UN) said on Friday. East Africa has been experiencing heavy rains...

At least 273,000 people had to flee severe flooding of the Shabelle River in Somalia, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said in a report on Friday, Anadolu reports. Calling...

A total of 2.6 million people in Somalia have been internally displaced amid insecurity, drought, and floods, the UN migration agency said in a report on Tuesday, reports Anadolu...

Over 20 Somali-based insurgent group al-Shabaab militants were killed and several weapons seized after Somali National Army (SNA) conducted a military operation in central region of Hiran, officials said...

There has been a surge in reports of sexual abuse against African refugee women in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, in what some rights groups describe as an “epidemic” of...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced on Friday nearly $50 million in education funding in Somalia, reports Anadolu Agency. In a statement, the US embassy in...

A group of Somali police officers are receiving counterterrorism training in an elite school of Turkish army commandos in the town of Foca, west of Izmir, Turkish media reported...

At least six government soldiers were killed and several others wounded when twin roadside explosions targeted a military convoy outside the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, officials said. The...

Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab militants on Monday stormed the Ballidogle American special forces military base roughly 100 kilometers northwest of Mogadishu using vehicle bombs followed by sporadic gunfire from fighters, according...

'Everyone knows that FGM is wrong'

The Somali National Army (SNA) on Sunday morning repulsed an al-Shabaab attack in El-Salini area in Lower Shabelle region, killing 13 militants, Anadolu Agency reports. Speaking to the media, Somali military...

At least eight government soldiers were killed and several others wounded when fighters from Somali-based al-Qaeda-linked group al-Shabaab attacked Somali National Army (SNA) base in Lower Shabelle region, officials...

President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has left the capital Mogadishu to the US to attend United Nations General Assembly in New York for the first time since he took office...

At least five people – including a deputy governor and a former minister – were killed and several others wounded in a roadside blast targeting their vehicle in the...

Somalia beat Zimbabwe 1-0 in a football World Cup qualifier played in Djibouti on Thursday, in the country’s first ever win in the qualifier, Anadolu Agency reports. Somalia is the lowest-ranked...

  Qatar announced on Monday the launching of the project to build the port “Hobyo” in the Mudug region in central Somalia. This came during a joint press conference,...

At least 16 al-Shabaab fighters were killed in Somalia after Somali special forces backed by Turkey trained forces attacked al-Shabaab positions in the region, state media said on Sunday,...

Republican Senator Rand Paul yesterday said he would buy Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar a ticket back to Somalia to “make her appreciate America more”. In an interview with far-right...

Qatar yesterday announced that it has transferred 12 victims of the Somali suicide attack which shock the country on Wednesday to Doha for treatment. “Qatar has sent a plane...

A female suicide bomber detonated herself in the office of the Mogadishu’s mayor, killing two officials  and badly wounding Mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman, local media reported on Wednesday, Anadolu...

At least eight people were killed and several others wounded when a roadside blast hit a civilian car in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region on Tuesday, said governor, reports Anadolu...

The Trump administration is considering a practical shutdown of refugee arrivals in the US next year, cutting the numbers to almost zero. The news has been reported by three...

The two-week exercise will be financed by US while Ethiopia provides venues and platforms for the drills. The contributing countries to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) –...