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 ...

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 ...

It was still possible, this summer, to see some hope in Somalia. The country was in dire need of some. The Ethiopian army, which invaded last December, had killed thousands of Somalis and lost ...

Somalia’s elegant colonial villas were left in ruins by two decades of street fighting among warlords, and the seaside capital Mogadishu was dubbed the most dangerous city in the world. But now new ...

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.

LAHJ, Yemen – Somali mother Barei Ibrahim has been living in Yemen for 26 years, after war drove her from her home country in the early nineties. But as the bitter conflict grinds on in Yemen, ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The war in Somalia ruined my first attempt to marry Anisa on New Year's Eve. I had planned to throw a splendid party in the central town of Baidoa, my young bride's hometown, ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamists suffered rapid defeat against Ethiopian troops and their Somali government allies because they fought the wrong kind of war -- a conventional one, experts ...