The United Nations' unfortunate experience in Somalia is providing further evidence that even the seemingly simplest military operations are much easier to get into than to get out of. The United ...

The fragile calm that gave a semblance of normalcy to this ravaged city burst apart Wednesday as rampaging mobs shouted for American troops to leave, pelted U.S. and United Nations forces with rocks ...

Distinguished Service Cross The second-highest military decoration in the U.S. Army, behind only the Medal of Honor. The recognition honors acts of extraordinary heroism: While engaged in action ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- A U.S. service member has been killed in Somalia during an operation against the extremist group al-Shabab -- the first U.S. combat death there in more than two decades -- ...

Mogadishu, Somalia, June 1993: Senior Airman David L. Viars gets a haircut from Sgt. Erik A. Straus, a security policeman, outside the police tent at a U.S. Air Force compound on the shores of the ...

A U.S. Navy SEAL died Thursday during a mission against al-Shabaab in Somalia, according to U.S. Africa Command. It is the first U.S. military combat death in Somalia since 1993. U.S. forces were ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C., (USASOC NEWS SERVICE, Oct. 3, 2018) -- "Black Hawk Down," for many Americans, brings to mind the intense 17-hour battle that took place October 1993, in the dusty streets of ...

(ABCNews)-- A small team of U.S. military advisers is now operating in Somalia, the first time that U.S. military personnel have been deployed to that country since 1993. That was the year that 18 ...

You know, what caused these killings in 1993 is really the same thing that's going on now, where you have very powerful clans in Somalia vying for control there. In 1993, what had been a U.N.-led ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Experience has taught Somali journalist Mohamed Hassan how to spot a suicide bomber, which neighborhoods to avoid and how to cope with the loss of colleagues - his own brother ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Ban Ki-moon made the first visit to Somalia by a U.N. Secretary General since 1993 on Friday and pledged to open a U.N. political office in the war-ravaged capital Mogadishu in ...

In an ironic twist, the son of Somalia's most infamous warlord and U.S. nemesis is now a leading member of Somalia's interim government that's being backed by America. Hussein Aideed is a naturalized ...