Since the collapse of the Somali state in 1991, extremist groups have exploited the ensuing instability to establish reigns ...

I am lonely, but Issa is with me.” Somalia’s constitution establishes Islam as the state religion and prohibits the propagation of any other religion, according to the U.S. State Department.

Before the establishment of the Islamic State in Somalia in 2015, the Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab had established itself in the north. The small group had extensive connections to smuggling ...