Taylor Palmer were training with Somalia’s Danab Brigade as part of ... operations against violent extremist organizations. The U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa employs the 2nd ...

Somalia’s government has increasingly turned to Turkey to repel al-Shabab, as America’s diminished focus on Africa scrambles ...

In testimony to Congress in March 2021, then-head of AFRICOM, Army Gen. Stephen Townsend called the rotations of U.S. troops into Somalia “not effective.” However, 18 months after the Trump ...

The U.S. military’s new posture comes even though many African armies remain ill-equipped and insurgent groups expand.

There have been at least 282 U.S. counterterrorism operations in Somalia, including drone strikes ... time and money training the Somali National Army, assisting in surveillance and drone strike ...

Federal Republic of Somalia, July 5, 2019. (Capt. London Nagai/U.S. Army) One of the most difficult parts of preparing for the attack was holding fire during al-Shabaab probing attacks.

MOGADISHU - The Federal Government of Somalia is deepening its military and security cooperation with Turkey in a strategic shift aimed at reinforcing its fight against the militant group Al-Shabaab, ...

The U.S. military is backing off its traditional talk of good governance and countering underlying causes of African ...

Sixteen aircraft dropped 124,000 pounds of ordnance in less than two minutes during a Feb. 1 airstrike in Somalia, a defense ...

The U.S. currently has about 500 military personnel stationed in Somalia that provide aerial ... Somali and African Union forces. The U.S. army has maintained an intermittent military presence ...

The U.S. military says it is investigating what caused an army drone to crash in southern Somalia this week. The military's Africa Command, known as AFRICOM, confirmed the incident in a post ...

Throughout the following months, more American troops arrived in Somalia, such as the U.S. Army Rangers and Delta Force soldiers interviewed in Surviving Black Hawk Down. Botched missions and ...