The army of the semi-autonomous Puntland region in Somalia said Friday they had taken control of a "strategic mountain command base" of the Islamic State group (IS).
20. He was a lieutenant colonel in the Somali National Army and commander of the Fifth Brigade in northwest Somalia during the dictatorship of Siad Barre from 1987 to 1989. As a high-ranking ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia - The Somali National Army (SNA) boss Gen. Yusuf Rage Odowaa says the military should put more focus on the elimination of the Al-Shabaab, a group that has organized mass killings ...