In a statement, Somalia's Ministry of Information said that militants used explosives to attack the bases in the Middle Shabelle region ...

After its battlefield defeat, it’s unclear if the Islamic State in Somalia retains the ability to extort money from the ...

Officials say approaches also made to breakaway region of Somaliland; Sudanese, Somali and Somaliland officials says proposal ...

The Horn of Africa in recent years has emerged as a theater of growing geopolitical competition, as world great powers are ...

Officials from Sudan said they have rejected overtures from the US, while officials from Somalia and Somaliland ... once had a military base in Somaliland and maintains commercial interests ...

AUSSOM is expected to have 11,900 personnel operating on the ground in Somalia, including soldiers, police and civilian support staff, according to officials ...

With support from the US Africa Command and the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia, the local forces have managed to make huge strides by liberating several strategic towns ...

But lawyers, activists and Somalis who were deported from the US in previous years say the plan may put lives at risk as insecurity and instability still plague Somalia, readapting to a country ...

The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as ...

Officials in Somalia say 130 militants ... and captured villages and bases in the mountainous area controlled by IS. This month, U.S. warplanes twice targeted the Islamic State affiliate in ...