MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Explosions and heavy gunfire erupted near Somalia’ s presidential palace on Saturday in an attack by a militant group targeting a major prison just hours after the federal ...

Ridley Scott's Oscar-winning 2002 movie Black Hawk Down famously portrayed the story of the Battle of Mogadishu, when Black Hawk helicopters were shot down by Somali forces in 1993. But the film was ...

A weekend of violence in Mogadishu has set off another wave of displacement from the war-torn capital, sending thousands more Somalis from their homes. Aid workers describe this latest round of ...

Somaliland’s foreign minister responds to Abdisaid Ali’s essay with a reminder that Somaliland’s statehood is not theoretical ...

BALCAD, Somalia, April 3 (UNHCR) - Thousands of people have been flooding into this small town north of Mogadishu saying that life in the Somali capital has become unbearable. They are part of a ...

A kaleidoscopic hail of tracer fire swept across the alley — green, red, orange — casting a neon glow on the darkened streets of Mogadishu. Shell casings showered down from helicopters as Spc. Arthur ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Nearly every member of the Third Ranger Battalion was present in full body armor at Woodruff Riverfront Park. They were there to honor the service and sacrifice of the soldiers ...

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Sunday closed Somalia's first National Justice Sector Convention, praising what he described as significant progress in strengthening security in the capital and ...

Mogadishu, Somalia, Jan. 3, 1993: A U.S. Marine guarding the gate to the port in Mogadishu loses his temper with a Somali trucker hauling grain donated by relief organizations. The Marine was upset ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." THERE'S A GOOD chance you don’t know the Battle of Mogadishu outside of a not-so-little movie called ...