While Trump might consider withdrawing land forces from overseas bases, American naval and air forces are likely to be a ...

The ISIL militants remain much smaller in number compared to Al-Shabaab, which controls large parts of Somalia. The group’s fighters are estimated to be 1,500, mostly scattered in the Al-Maskad region ...

The Council voted at the end of December to endorse a new mission, the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in ...

The Cal Miskaad mountain range, long considered a strategic hideout for extremist groups, has become the epicentre of a ...

According to Fadhigo, the ISIS militants had attempted a large-scale assault on Puntland military bases overnight using ...

Security forces in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region said Wednesday they had killed scores of fighters linked to the ...

Nearly 100 people were killed and up to 60 others wounded when members of the Islamic State terror group launched a deadly ...

Puntland’s soldiers are now locked in a grinding fight, one with major international implications, but without much Western ...

Previous media reports indicated that autonomous regions of Somalia were willing to take in displaced Gazans, but this has ...

Finding and fighting the militants who have become the beating heart of the Islamic State (IS) group in Africa can be tough work as they hide deep in the mountains of ...

Forces from Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region have captured swathes of territory from Islamic State during a ...