One of the leaders is Abdikani Ali Mohamed, a teenage-faced colonel whose authority has grown in the city as Somalia’s ...

The wave of attacks comes as American forces bombed ISIS militants on Christmas Day in Nigeria, the first operation in the country.

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 ...

Somalia's defence minister says Israel plans to forcibly move Palestinians to Somaliland, citing confirmed intelligence.

Somali government forces, backed by international partners including the US military, carried out a planned operation late on Thursday night targeting Al-Shabaab in the town of Saakow in the Middle ...

The Christmas Day strikes followed three consecutive days of strikes in roughly the same area of northern Somalia.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A Somali military official says fighters from Islamic extremist rebels recaptured a town in southern Somalia, killing at least 11 Somali government soldiers. Col. Abdinur ...

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 ...

Mogadishu’s first line of defense against the next militant attack on Somalia’s capital ranges from machine gunners in ...