Al-Shabaab has become al-Qaida’s most lucrative franchise, generating as much as $200 million a year through a system of forced taxation, extortion, and illicit trade that...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday cast doubt on the need for American military operations in Somalia and Kenya, telling senior commanders that the United States should...
The U.S. Embassy in Somalia said Wednesday it has suspended several routine operations after a budget standoff in Washington triggered a federal government shutdown. In a...
Operation Twin Shield exposes sham marriages, forged visas, and alleged terror links in Minneapolis and St. Paul — shaking America’s largest Somali community. Federal immigration authorities...
Seven jihadists slain, one captured — but survivors melt into the mountains as Puntland vows revenge. Puntland’s counter-terror blitz wiped out the ISIS unit that assassinated...
Kenyan police bust trafficking ring funneling citizens to Russia under fake job contracts, as fears grow of Africa becoming a hunting ground for Moscow’s war machine....
From Mogadishu’s labs to Banjul’s skeletal remains, African forensics see AI as the next battlefield weapon against crime — but global support will decide how fast...
The African Union warns Somalia’s fragile progress risks collapse without nearly $200 million in funding for its final peace mission, exposing deep divisions among donors over...
Donald Trump claims Somali President Hassan Sheikh rejected Ilhan Omar’s “return” to Somalia, sparking a furious response from Omar and reigniting debate over Somali refugees, diaspora...
Mogadishu awoke Thursday to the sight of armored personnel carriers blocking key intersections and troops patrolling roads leading to the residences of prominent opposition leaders. The...
When Mohamed Ahmed Nur returned home to Quracley in January 2023, the scene was carnage. Three of his sons, all young boys, lay in pieces after...
Somalia repatriated 173 of its citizens from Libya on Tuesday, ending years of detention under dire conditions in a country long notorious for its abusive treatment...
Fahad Yasin, Somalia’s most controversial power broker of the last two decades, is once again at the center of storm. The former intelligence chief, ex-Qatari envoy,...
Senior U.S. officials met with Puntland President Said Abdullahi Deni on Saturday, pledging continued support for Somalia’s semi-autonomous region as it intensifies its fight against ISIS...
Somalia’s defense minister Ahmed Moallin Fiqi’s trip to Beijing for a rare high-level meeting with Chinese defense chief Admiral Dong Jun was presented as routine diplomacy....
The United Kingdom has issued a new travel advisory cautioning its citizens against traveling to several regions of Kenya, citing the persistent threat of terrorism, banditry,...
Pentagon move sparks local anger as clan leaders reject militant ties. The U.S. military confirmed Wednesday that a September 13 airstrike in Somaliland’s northern Sanaag region...
Somaliland’s government has delivered one of its most forceful rebukes yet to Mogadishu, with Information Minister Ahmed Yasin Sheikh Ali Ayanle, dismissing recent threats and political...
Somalia’s top auditor has cast doubt on the integrity of some of the federal government’s most important financial streams, warning that lapses in record-keeping and oversight...
The United Kingdom has delivered a new fleet of vehicles and advanced counter-explosives equipment to the Somali National Army (SNA), in a move officials say will...