Somalia’s arid, semi-autonomous Puntland region has been having a lively couple of months recently due to hotly contested elections. On Wednesday, the country’s northeastern region will select ...

A senior ISIL (ISIS) commander in Somalia has been captured, police and state media have said, as security forces continue a weeks-long offensive against the group.

Although Puntland’s former president, Abdirahman Farole — in office from 2009 until January 2014 — made repeated public pledges and some concrete efforts to undermine, arrest, and convict ...

Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland said on Sunday it has withdrawn from the country's federal system and will govern itself independently until constitutional amendments passed by the ...

Security forces in Somalia's Puntland State say they have seized a boat carrying illegal military supplies, just days after the US launched an air strike targeting ISIS hideouts in the region.

Puntland declared itself an autonomous region of Somalia in 1998 amid the ongoing Somali civil war and has since achieved relative stability compared with the other parts of the country, which ...

Somalia's northeastern Puntland region announced a major offensive against Islamic State and a rival Islamist group, the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab, in December and claims to have since captured ...

The president of Puntland State in northern Somalia Dr. Abdirahman Mohamed Farole has received former Puntland President Gen. Mohamud Muse Hirsi (Adde) at the State House on Sunday for discussions ...

Since 2014, government and security officials in Puntland and south-central Somalia regularly called in journalists for questioning and then arbitrarily arrested them.

Puntland declared itself an autonomous region of Somalia in 1998 amid the ongoing Somali civil war and has since achieved relative stability compared with the other parts of the country, which ...

Somalia’s Puntland appoints new president Legislators pick Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, a former Somali prime minister, to lead the semi-autonomous region.