President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia has pledged a strong offensive against ISIS militants entrenched in the Al-Miskaad Mountains in the Bari region, according to a statement released after a ...

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

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The chief of Somalia's military court, Hassan Ali Nur Shute, revealed on Tuesday that human rights ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Mohamud Moalim, Commissioner of the Disaster Management Agency (SoDMA), has held talks with renowned clan elders to lead peace efforts in ending clan conflicts in southern and ...

BALADWEYNE, Somalia – Somali government held a funeral for six Somali National Army (SNA) soldiers in Baladweyne, Hiran region, about 300 km north of the capital, Mogadishu. The soldiers were killed ...

Hassan Sheikh Ibrahim belongs to the Giron clan of Dighil-Mirifle (also called Rahanweyne) and was a leader of the Somali Democratic Movement, heir of the Hisbiga party which called for a federal ...

Thirty years ago, making a phone call from Somalia meant crossing the border ... A recent research paper by Mr Norman shows how clan-based WhatsApp groups are increasingly being used to crowdsourc ...

Somaliland has been a self-governing region of Somalia for more than three decades ... that Somalilanders are predominantly from the Isaaq clan, and thus ethnically distinctive from other Somalis.

resource and human terms since the early 1990s when the bodies of 18 American servicemen were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu after US helicopters were shot down by Somali clan fighters.

Powerful and influential Republicans are pushing for the same thing, including Congressman Scott Perry who last month introduced a bill proposing formal US recognition for Somaliland. It followed ...

Many people in Somaliland are convinced that the United States, under the incoming presidency of Donald Trump, is poised to become the world's first country to recognise the self-declared republic.