Puntland security forces have seized the last remaining hideouts of Islamic State (IS) militants in the Baallade valley of the Calmiskaad mountains in Puntland's Bari region, officials said Wednesday.

Puntland Defense Forces posed next to a sign in Arabic that proclaimed the mountain town of Sheebaab as a “province” of the Islamic State group. The town, located in Somalia’s autonomous northeastern ...

In contrast, security forces in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland have, with some key support from international partners, united to repel the Islamic State group's advance ...

In contrast, security forces in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland have, with some key support from international partners, united to repel the Islamic State group’s advance. Islamist ...

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Security forces in Somalia’s northeastern semiautonomous state of Puntland said Tuesday that they killed more than 60 ISIS (Daesh) terrorists. Gen. Mohamoud Fadhigo, spokesperson for the ...

Security forces in Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland announced Monday that a recent airstrike in the Bari region killed more than 13 foreign Daesh/ISIS fighters. The airstrikes ...

Before those strikes, Reuters reporters who gained rare access to the village of Balidhidin, which IS controlled for a decade, saw Puntland security forces patrolling and residents circulating on ...