Somali minister tells Al Jazeera Israeli base plans in Somaliland risk dragging Somalia into ‘external confrontations’.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia's defense ministry said officials were investigating an explosion at a military training school in the capital, Mogadishu, on Wednesday, an incident claimed by the al ...

Shabaab, Al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, highlighted last year’s brazen assault on Mogadishu’s Godka Jilacow prison, operated by Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency. In the video, ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Military operations cannot effectively end the Al-Shabaab menace in Somalia, a top European Union envoy has said, in the middle of sustained aggression against the militants, who ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Somali authorities are unlawfully detaining and at times prosecuting in military courts children with alleged ties to the Islamist armed group Al-Shabab, Human Rights Watch said in a ...

Heavily armed al-Shabab extremists have stormed a military base in Somalia's semiautonomous state of Puntland, killing close to 70 people and wounding dozens more, officials said Thursday. Residents ...

The Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces (UPDF) contingent serving under the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) on Friday evening hosted an Iftar dinner for the Muslim ...

Somalia has warned against alleged Israeli plans to build a military base in the breakaway region of Somaliland, whose independence Somalia does not recognise. The base would be a strategic point for ...