Africa’s Tora Bora is deployed here to evoke a deliberate strategic and symbolic parallel between the Cal Miskad mountain ...

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 ...

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.

The dominance of a single clan, the Majeerteen, has in part likely helped facilitate this unity. In the current operations against Islamic State in Somalia, the autonomous Puntland government ...

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. Abdirahman Shirwac Aw-Saciid ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 3 April 2024 Puntland, an arid region of north-east Somalia, declared itself an autonomous state in August 1998, in part to avoid the ...

Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland said on Sunday it has withdrawn from the country's federal system and will govern itself independently until constitutional amendments passed by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

How the small autonomous region of Puntland found success in battling Islamic State in Somalia By Ido Levy , American University School of International Service June 17, 2025 ...

The town, located in Somalia’s autonomous northeastern region of Puntland, was one of numerous areas that soldiers from the regional government have taken back during Operation Hilaac, an ...