One month ago, heavily armed militiamen who support the Islamic State (IS) militant group walked into the Somali town of Qandala and seized it without opposition. The town on the Red Sea became ...

Military officials in Puntland, an autonomous region in northeastern Somalia, were caught by surprise when the militants seized Qandala, a traditional symbol of staunch resistance to foreign ...

QANDALA, Somalia -- While the international community has focused on combating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, the terror group ...

The leader of the Islamic State branch in Somalia, Abdulqadir Mumin, was seen in the city and held talks with local elders. To provide visual evidence of this claim, Amaq also released a short video ...

GAROWE, Puntland-The BBC Somali service, which was operating since 1957 ... yesterday during a live radio broadcast show on ongoing offensive against ISIS in Qandala. The man claimed to be a commander ...

An Islamic State fighter raising the group’s flag over the town of Qandala in Somalia’s Puntland Region in Oct. 2016 The Islamic State has claimed yesterday’s suicide assault on a hotel in the ...

Fighters aligned with the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) took control of a small town in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region Wednesday. The militants took over the port town of Qandala ...