Somalia’s government has increasingly turned to Turkey to repel al-Shabab, as America’s diminished focus on Africa scrambles ...

Yusuf Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia. For more than two decades, Somalia has been ...

as a line of heavily armed Somali soldiers snaked down the mountainside to a fortified cave — their camouflage uniforms marking a new front line in the fight against the global terrorist group.

The deputy Chief of Defence Forces, Lt Gen Sam Okiding, has warned Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) in Somalia against ...

Since the fall of Somalia’s central government in 1991, efforts to rebuild the Somali National Army (SNA) have trained over ...

is expected to have 11,900 personnel operating on the ground in Somalia, including soldiers, police and civilian support staff, according to Somali and AU officials. The new arrangement allocates ...

A suicide bomber struck a military recruitment center in Damaanyo, Mogadishu, on Saturday morning, targeting scores of young ...

M ogadishu, Somalia – A suicide bomber in the Somali capital on Sunday targeted young recruits waiting to register at a ...

Mogadishu: At least 10 people were killed on Sunday after a suicide bomber targeted a queue of young recruits registering at ...

At the start of 2025 the UN authorized a new peacekeeping force of 11,900 troops. In February the U.S. carried out airstrikes against Islamic terrorists in Puntland, which is in northern Somalia.