Before the establishment of the Islamic State in Somalia in 2015, the Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab had established itself in the north. The small group had extensive connections to smuggling ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Al-Qaeda's East Africa associates — Al-Shabaab, suffered immense setbacks in central regions of Somalia, state media reports, in what comes at the time President Hassan Sheikh ...

Government sources however confirmed that the president was unharmed and headed to Middle Shabelle in southern Somalia to oversee military operations against al-Shabab. Al-Shabab, which opposes ...

The United States government has cautioned that unregulated trade between Kenya and Somalia facilitates money laundering by criminals. The US further put in the spotlight informal international money ...

Somali Militants Target Presidential Convoy in Bomb Attack, President Safe MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Al Shabaab militants targeted Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in a bomb attack on his ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Suspected Somali pirates have hijacked another Yemeni fishing ...

Kenya closed its border with Somalia after an armed clash killed a police officer and wounded another in Mandera on Friday. Kenyan authorities claim Somali security forces ambushed their police at the ...

For Somalia, however—a country still navigating the complexities of statehood after three decades of conflict—the allure of such sweeping strategies risks becoming a distraction. While the ambition is ...

The contacts with Sudan, Somalia and the breakaway region of Somalia known as Somaliland reflect the determination by the US and Israel to press ahead with a plan that has been widely condemned ...

AP says U.S. has proposed Gazans be settled in Africa Somaliland and Somalia say they have not received any proposal Sudan official says proposal would be unacceptable Trump has proposed U.S ...