U.S. forces conducted an airstrike against the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabab over the weekend in Somalia. The airstrike by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) targeted an area nearly 40 miles northwest of ...

Cairo — Egypt, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) strongly condemned a suicide bombing Sunday near a military base in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. In a statement, Egypt's Foreign ...

The Minister of Defense of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Ambassador Abdikhadir Ahmed Fiqi, along with the Chief of the Somali National Army, General Odowaa Yusuf Raage, on Tuesday met with the ...

Somali government, US Africa Command carry out airstrikes Somali troops kill al Shabaab fighters attempting to attack base Attacks follow recent gains by Islamist insurgents MOGADISHU, April 17 ...

Ilhan Omar's father, Nur Omar Mohamed, committed war crimes as a military officer in Somalia before immigrating to the U.S. as a refugee. There is little detailed information available about Nur's ...

As COVID-19 roared on in October 2020, Somali community leaders in Columbus, Ohio, formed a small nonprofit organization aimed at assisting their community through the pandemic. Two years later ...

Mogadishu, Somalia – Mukhtar Abdiwhab Ahmed sits in a plastic chair outside his house in Mogadishu. Nearby, children play, soldiers congregate, and rickshaws speed by under the scorching sun.

For almost a month, security forces in the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland have been advancing on the mountainous hideouts of Islamic State militants. The fiercest clashes occurred late ...

The Somali Students’ Association will host its sixth annual Somali Night Saturday at 5 p.m. in the Ohio Union Archie Griffin Ballroom. The event will celebrate Somali culture through poetry ...

President Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia held extensive discussions at the State House in Asmara, Eritrea, on Wednesday, focusing on the consolidation of ...

Since its inception in 2019, Somalia's Gargaara MSME Financing Facility, supported by the World Bank and the Somalia Multi-Partner Fund (MPF), has issued more than 1,600 loans to entrepreneurs in ...