Munir al Tanzani, a Tanzanian suicide bomber who the Islamic State says detonated himself at the Puntland military base yesterday, as seen in the group’s official propaganda release. A day after the ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) On Feb. 24, 2025, members of the Puntland Defense Forces posed next to a sign in Arabic that proclaimed the mountain town of Sheebaab as a“province” of the Islamic ...

Earlier today, the Puntland Security Forces (PSF), the armed forces of Somalia ... these encounters have typically been defensive in nature—for instance, after the PSF raids ISS positions. The fact ...

This week, Puntland Forces continued their scorch-earth ... But it still reflected the nature of connections the ISIS extremist group has rallied recruits from around the world, and disabused ...

At least 15 Puntland soldiers and more than 50 militants ... The fighting of this nature in such an environment, the attacking force often suffers more casualties than the defenders,” he said.

The ISIS armed group attacked military bases in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland state overnight with suicide car and motorbike bombs, but government forces repelled the assault and airstrikes ...

Puntland, an arid region of north-east Somalia, declared itself an autonomous state in August 1998, in part to avoid the clan warfare engulfing southern Somalia. Despite its relative stability ...

Somalia’s oil-rich Puntland region will on Thursday hold its first democratic local elections since 1967, a significant turnaround for the semi-autonomous state that’s long been known as a ...

The US Africa Command carried out an airstrike in Puntland, Somalia, targeting IS-Somalia positions and killing several operatives. Coordinated with the Somali government, the strike occurred ...

Puntland refused to recognize the authority of the federal government of Somalia on Sunday, rejecting the latest constitutional reforms approved by the Somali Parliament. The Council of Ministers ...