By the end of March 2025, the Trump administration already launched at least 16 air and drone strikes inside Somalia. In comparison, the Biden administration only launched 10 strikes in 2024.

U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, conducted an airstrike against multiple ISIS-Somalia targets on March 29, 2025. The airstrike took place ...

Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland has rejected an attempt by the central government to give the US exclusive control ...

The Trump administration and Israel approached the governments of Sudan and Somalia, and have also been interested in Syria, ...

Al-Shabab gunmen have stormed and laid siege to a hotel in central Somalia as government officials and tribal elders met to discuss action against the outfit. The armed group claimed responsibility ...

A man living in Gaza has claimed people in the territory would consider moving to dangerous war-ravaged countries like Sudan or Somalia because it would give them "freedom" and "hope". US ...

Despite the sharp decline in Somali piracy after 2012, the EU remained intent on maintaining its naval presence.

Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch for East Africa, has mounted considerable attacks over the last few weeks in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle and Hiraan regions just north of Mogadishu. The group’s offensive is ...

Mukhtar says he knew he wouldn’t be deported as Somalia was at war. It was 2007 and during that time, US-backed Ethiopian troops were in the country battling splinter groups that rose from the ...

Somaliland offered the US military access to a strategic seaport and airfield in exchange for steps toward sovereignty.