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).

Successive forces have come through the revovling doors of the Horn of Africa nation and gone out without implementing a ...

In May, Al-Shabab fighters, using suicide blasts, overran an army base, killing 73 soldiers and seizing vehicles. The claims ...

President Donald Trump has signed a temporary executive order halting all U.S. foreign aid programs for 90 days, pending a ...

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 ...

In 2023, Burundi sent hundreds of soldiers to fight the M23 rebellion in North Kivu alongside the Congolese army and allied ...

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 ...

Turkey started building a rocket launch facility in Somalia on 20 December 2024, following an announcement made a few month ...

The Red Sea's security depends solely on the will of its littoral states, Egyptian Foreign <a target=_blank href= ...

While the United States isn't specifically required to help North Korea, an important part of the U.S. Navy's ongoing mission ...