The expression Black Hawk Down, the title of a Hollywood film, has become shorthand for a 1993 US military disaster in Somalia. Eighteen American soldiers lost their lives in the fighting that ...

Scenes from the Somalia You Don’t See on the News beyond the stories of terrorist outrages lies a country that is not giving up hope for a peaceful future Photographs and Text by Brent Stirton I ...

Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down tries to do the same for 1993's battle between American troops and Somali fighters on the streets of Mogadishu. The back story is put up on screen as titles.

Islamic militias that recently took control of the Somali capital Mogadishu after nearly a decade of warlord rule are drawing widespread support among Somali citizens for their efforts to ...

American special operations forces are working with government forces from Somalia, Kenya ... troops in the war-torn country since the "Black Hawk Down" tragedy of 1993. Follow BI Video: On ...

In 1991, civil war erupted in Somalia. A United Nations mission tried to restore order and provide humanitarian aid. But, in 1995 the mission ended in an embarrassing withdrawal.

PETALING JAYA: It has been twenty years, and the United States still remembers the Malaysian Armed Forces' role in helping the US Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment, 10th Mountain Regiment and 160th ...

A group of elite U.S. soldiers are on a mission to capture two renegade warlords in Somalia, when they suddenly ... Unfortunately Black Hawk Down isn't available to watch right now.

But, the mission ended in an embarrassing withdrawal in 1995 after US helicopters were shot down, as depicted in the film Black Hawk Down. Halima Ismail Ibrahim risked her life to work for the UN ...