Mogadishu is rising, literally, from the ashes of decades of war. Pavements remain scarred by bullet holes and ruined ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Somali forces have finally ended yet another long hotel siege in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu, almost twenty four hours after it began. The siege, which was upon the Villa Rays Hotel just meters ...

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 ...

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 ...

Somaliland’s foreign minister responds to Abdisaid Ali’s essay with a reminder ...

Friday is beach day in Mogadishu. Early in the day before Friday prayers and before the sun gets too hot, people flock to Liido Beach on the eastern side of the city. "This is a very important place," ...