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 attackers.

Somali forces, alongside clan militias, thwarted coordinated attacks by al Shabaab on villagers in southern Somalia, killing over 130 militants. The insurgent group, linked to al Qaeda, briefly took ...

GAROWE, Somalia - Puntland, a federal state in northeastern Somalia, banned undocumented foreigners from entering its ...

Fatalities and violent events linked to militant Islamist groups in Africa sustained near record pace, with the Sahel and Somalia accounting for 79 percent of related deaths.

The calls to dismantle USAID stem from real concerns, but the consequences of such a move could be catastrophic.

While the DAG, which is said to deploy about 30 mercenaries in the area, assist the authorities in a variety of functions, including the training of local Mozambican police, their most visible role ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Two airstrikes have reportedly taken out several ISIL bases in the Al-Maskad mountains of the Bari ...

The ISIL militants remain much smaller in number compared to Al-Shabaab, which controls large parts of Somalia. The group’s fighters are estimated to be 1,500, mostly scattered in the Al-Maskad region ...

The Somali government said on Thursday that its forces thwarted attacks on four military bases by al-Shabab who had ...

US officials said many programs affected by President Trump's freeze on foreign aid were designed to respond to national ...