BOSASO, Somalia - Security forces in Somalia's northeastern state of Puntland initiated a crackdown against undocumented foreigners, most of them who are believed to be fighting for the IS-Somalia ...

The army of the semi-autonomous Puntland region in Somalia said Friday they had taken control of a "strategic mountain command base" of the Islamic State group (IS).

Three Ethiopian nationals were killed over two days in Somalia's Puntland region amid accusations of "links to the terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS)," while several Ethiopians have reportedly been ...

BOSASO, Somalia - On Thursday, at least 110 dolphins were found stranded along the Mareero coastline near Bosaso, the commercial capital of Puntland, Somalia. Puntland's Minister of Environment, ...

In an interview with Shabelle, Abdifatah Abdinuur, the Minister of State for the Puntland Presidency, stated that Puntland no longer hopes for cooperation or rapprochement with the Somali Federal ...

Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, who argued her proposal was about state sovereignty. The resolution asks the nation’s highest court to “restore the natural definition of marriage, a union of one ...

A New Jersey state board has revoked the teaching certificates of a male educator accused of initiating "unprovoked and unwanted" contact with two female graduates of Willingboro High School.

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The bill (HB 433) would create an exception to the state’s newly enacted ban on marriage under the age of 18.

NAIROBI, KENYA - Authorities in Somalia’s Puntland region this week banned the illegal entry of foreigners and ordered ...

By 2017 it was recognized as the Somali province of Islamic State, some media outlets naming Mumin IS global leader. IS-militants in Puntland targets clan elders, moderate religious preachers, army ...