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 ...

Talk is circulating of a US tilt toward the recognition of Somaliland──a secessionist entity in northern Somalia──as a ...

Some State Department officials have proposed closing the embassy in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, as a precaution after ...

A former British police officer who once led an operation against child grooming gangs has spent more than a decade fighting ...

Al Shabaab fighters captured a town in central Somalia on Wednesday that government forces had been using as a staging area to drive back an offensive by the militants that has gained ground in recent ...

In just the first three months of President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has already launched at least 16 manned aircraft or drone strikes inside Somalia, according to numbers ...

The Islamic State group’s rise in Somalia Islamist groups have been part of Somalia’s fractured political landscape since the country’s descent into civil war in the 1980s. They tapped into profound ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ido Levy, American University (THE CONVERSATION) On Feb. 24, 2025, members of the ...

In Mogadishu, Somalia, Mr Edwards worked with armed officers ... Although the Kosovo war was long since over, he said the country was still in a "post-war stage", and there were people fighting ...