At least 10 al-Shabaab militants were killed over the past three days in a series of air strikes in Somalia aimed at weakening the terrorist group, the US military...

Ilhan Omar marked her first day in office by promising to make the US live up to its ideals of religious liberty, and she demanded the country reject divisiveness...

The Somali government has ordered the UN top envoy in the country to leave its territories, accusing him of interfering in national sovereignty. The decision came days after concerns...

At least 16 people were killed and 20 were wounded after car bomb in Mogadishu

Somalia’s Minister of Public Labour and Housing Abdel-Fattah Ibrahim yesterday resigned following the eruption of violence after the detention of a prominent local sheikh in the city of Baidoa,...

A former Al-Shabaab spokesman has been arrested in southwestern Somalia, an official said, reports Anadolu Agency. Mukhtar Robow, also known as Abu Mansor, was arrested by Somali and Ethiopian...

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki arrived on Thursday for his first-ever visit to Somalia, in another sign of rapidly changing relations in the region following Eritrea’s rapprochement with one-time foe...

Saudi Arabia is seeking an alliance with six countries bordering the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, a strategic area vital to global shipping and increasingly an arena...

A senior US official said today the war against Al-Shabaab has not been lost in spite of a series of recent attacks across Somalia, including in the capital Mogadishu. US Assistant...

More than 15 people were killed in a suicide car bomb attack targeting a religious centre in the town of Galkayo in the central province of Mudug in Somalia today,...

An air strike; believed to be American, has destroyed the Al-Andalus radio station; the main media platform for Somalia’s al-Shabab group in the city of Jilib in Middle Juba...

Ethiopian Airlines resumed on Friday its flights to the Somali capital Mogadishu after a 41-year suspension. The CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Tewolde Gebremariam, said in a press conference that...

Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar became the first Middle Eastern women to be elected to Congress during the US mid-terms yesterday. The two women made history as incoming election...

The United Nations aid chief sounded the alarm at the Security Council on Tuesday that half the population of war-torn Yemen – some 14 million people – could soon...

The United States’ top military officer said on Tuesday that little progress had been made in dealing with the underlying conditions that have given rise to armed Islamist militants,...

The death toll has risen to 20 people on Sunday following two suspected suicide bombers that struck in the southern Somali city of Baidoa on Saturday, a local hospital...

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will warn on Thursday that the threat from Islamist militants is growing and the current approach for tackling the threat will fail unless...

A suicide bomber executed a car bomb attack killing six and injuring 15 others in a targeted strike on government offices in Mogadishu, Garowe Online reported yesterday. Three Somali...

Hundreds of migrants have been relocated from government-run detention centres in Libya after being trapped by clashes between rival groups, UN and aid sources said on Thursday. The migrants were abandoned...

Some 500 Somalis have graduated from a British Security Training Centre located in southern Somalia Baidoa, Forces Network reported yesterday. British forces have been providing training to the Somali...

African migrants rejected by Italy in a standoff with the European Union last week said they had been held by smugglers for up to two years in Libya and many had...

Somalis who graduated from Turkish universities on Monday condemned the US sanctions on Turkey and urged their compatriots to help the Turkish nation go through their difficult times, Anadolu reports....

Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has reshuffled key security officials in a move to counter an ongoing threat from Al-Qaeda’s affiliate Al-Shabaab. Farmajo appointed Dahi Adnan Ilmi as the...

A militant group associated with Daesh in Syria and Iraq has started levying taxes on businesses in Somalia, Garowe Online reported yesterday. “The traders and businesses in Bosaso city...

Minnesota State Representative and Somali-born Muslim Ilhan Omar has won the Democratic Party’s primary election for the state’s 5th District to become the second Arab Muslim candidate to join...

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is supporting thousands of Somali nationals return from war-torn Yemen, the UN reported in a briefing yesterday. The last boat carrying some 116...

The United States-backed Special Forces have taken over a strategic base from the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab in Southern Somalia, Garowe Online reported today. A surprise dawn attack was launched...

At least three Somali soldiers were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Afgoye district, a town 30 km to the north west of the capital Mogadishu, police and...

A suicide bomber killing two and injuring four others in a targeted attack on an official in the northern Somali province of Togdher, according to Garowe Online. The bomber...

After years of animosity, the presidents of Eritrea and Somalia have signed an agreement to restore relations, Al Jazeera reported today. Eritrea and Somalia are bridging the gap in...

Deaf footballers in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu have set up their own league after they faced difficulties joining mainstream football teams, the BBC reported today. “We were not given equal...

The impact of the anti-Qatar embargo continues to have strange consequences beyond the Gulf. Somalia is increasingly compromised by its schizophrenic approach to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE...