"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 ...

My colleague Roger Kaplan recently wrote an excellent review of the PBS documentary, The Last 600 Meters, which is an excellent description of the battles of Najaf and Fallujah during the Iraq war.

U.S. didn't know Bin Laden henchmen aided Somalis in deadly 1993 shootout. A group of young Somalis chant anti American slogans while sitting atop the burned out hulk of a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter ...

The mangled Black Hawk arced across the sky, then disappeared from Tom Satterly's sight. A moment later, he heard the far-off crash and realized that what had started as a routine operation was now a ...

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 ...

Thirty years ago today, the U.S. military was involved in a brief but brutal battle in Somalia. In a series of firefights over two bloody days, 18 members of America’s most elite Special Forces and ...

Shabaab fighters march in Somalia. Image from a Shabaab propaganda video. Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu was yet again the victim of a brazen terrorist attack conducted by Shabaab, Al Qaeda’s branch ...

People have their photos, finger prints, and details taken in a voting registration drive run by the National Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission in Mogadishu, Somalia, on April 23, 2025.

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 ...