Maeleninine was the main target of the Feb. 1 airstrike against Islamic State hideouts in the semi-autonomous region of northern Somalia. In an interview with VOA Somali, the Puntland state ...

U.S. airstrikes killed 16 militants affiliated with the Islamic State terrorist group in northern Somalia, officials there said Monday. A spokesperson for security operations in the Puntland ...

Millions of people in Somalia are again going hungry but what is driving recurrent food insecurity in the Horn of Africa?NAIROBI - Nearly one in five people are going hungry in Somalia largely due to ...

The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as ...

Security forces in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region said Wednesday they had killed scores of fighters linked to ISIS in heavy fighting in the mountains. It was the latest in a string of ...

In February the U.S. carried out airstrikes against Islamic terrorists in Puntland, which is in northern Somalia. Soldiers and militiamen killed over 120 Al Shabab attackers. Last year piracy returned ...

"We encourage dialogue between the Yemen and Al-Shabaab sanctions Panels ... to shed light on and ultimately sever the ties ...

In northern Somalia, where the Islamic State has built an operational and financial hub, local forces are locked in a bloody offensive aimed at dislodging the militants but have been unable to ...

A long-term maritime agreement could boost Somalia’s naval capacity to curb illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

A security expert who has worked extensively in Somalia put it bluntly: “If all U.S. money stops forever, this war [against al-Shabab] is over very fast,” he said. In northern Somalia ...

Analysis - A long-term maritime agreement could boost Somalia's naval capacity to curb illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.