The helicopter pilot is worried. Any more than 20 minutes in this shattered frontline village and Somalia's Al-Shabaab ...

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

Somalia is facing its most severe crisis since the height of its civil war in the 1990s. Al-Shabaab has launched a devastating offensive, sweeping across southern regions and encircling the capital, ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Their life's belongings piled on donkeys, Somali families weave along alleys filled with the corpses of starved animals to return to their bullet-ridden homes. After four years ...

Buried under the dizzying headlines about Iran and Israel, many may miss that the head of the largest terrorist organization in Africa was recently eliminated by American-supported forces. Despite ...

Dr. Elmi is a professor at the City University of Mogadishu, where Mr. Hassan is a fellow. They wrote from Mogadishu, Somalia. Trouble has horns to hold but not tails. This Somali proverb, suggesting ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The U.S. Defense Department awarded a more than $12 million contract for “emergency runway repairs” at Camp Baledogle, Somalia, last month. Camp Baledogle was the subject of a ...

BOSSASO, Somalia Sept 14 (UNHCR) - Civil war was raging in Somalia when Fatima Mohamed, then just 12 years old, and her older sister fled Mogadishu and travelled north to safety in Yemen. The two ...

For several years, online rumors have alleged that U.S. Rep. 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.