It also cooperated effectively with other forces to defeat a 2016 al-Shabab attempt to attack Puntland from the sea. The U.S. and UAE have supported the Puntland government’s campaign.

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 ...

Puntland Chief of Military Operation, Brigadier Gen Mohamed Adan Jama alias Degelle stressed last Thursday that the military campaign against the terrorists has entered its third Phase.“The ...

Puntland, an oil-rich, semi-autonomous territory in eastern Somalia, will select a new president on Jan. 8 in a parliamentary vote that comes as Mogadishu is seized with trying to assert its ...

Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland said on Sunday it has withdrawn from the country's federal system and will govern itself independently until constitutional amendments passed by the ...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

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 ...