NAIROBI, Kenya — When Iman Elman decided to enlist in the Somali National Army in 2011, the officer distributing uniforms gave her one shirt and two pairs of pants.

Al Shabaab fighters battled Somali troops and allied forces for control of a strategic army base in central Somalia on Thursday, the government and a military official said, as the al Qaeda-linked ...

Odawa Yusuf Rage, former commander of Somalia’s national army, has been nominated to return to that position in an extraordinary meeting convened by cabinet ministers in Mogadishu.

An explosion hit a military base in the Somali capital on Wednesday and was followed by gunfire, a witness said, as the al Qaeda-linked militant al Shabaab group claimed responsibility for what it ...

Somalia said on Thursday its army and allied clan militias have fought off coordinated raids on villages by the Islamist al Shabaab armed group in the country's south, killing more than 130 ...

The Council today adopted an assistance measure worth €1 million, under the European Peace Facility, to support the Somali National Army with military equipment designed to deliver lethal force.