NAIROBI, Kenya — Somalia is once again a raging battle zone, with jihadists pouring in from overseas, preparing for a final push to topple the transitional government. The government is begging for ...

Most of the news from Somalia comes from the capital, Mogadishu, and it's mostly bad. But there is a different part of Somalia where things are much better. It's called Somaliland, and in addition to ...

The removal of Siad Barre, the military strongman who ruled Somalia with an iron fist in 1991 precipitated a situation that led to anarchy which has persisted for more than two decades. Repeated ...

RABDORE, Somalia -- Villagers call it the "War of the Well," a battle that erupted between two clans over control of a watering hole in this dusty, drought-stricken trading town. By the time it ended ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia's president resigned Monday after a four-year term in which his Western-backed government failed to extend its power throughout a country crippled by infighting and a ...

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — They came to power as Somalia’s best hope for peace, a government composed of traditional Somali elders, clan leaders, and businessmen under the leadership of a religious ...

MOGADISHU, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Eleven people were killed on Wednesday in fighting between Islamist insurgents and Ethiopian forces in the north of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, residents and witnesses ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — They dodged firefights on their way to school, maneuvering through one of the world’s most violent cities. Yet on Thursday, 20 men and women accomplished something that nobody in ...

MARKA, Somalia (Reuters) - Ali Hussein says Somalia is the worst place in the world to be blind. To survive, he has learnt to distinguish between the sounds of mortars, missiles and machineguns the ...

A male suicide bomber dressed as a woman attacked a graduation ceremony Thursday in a small part of the capital still under government control, killing 22 people, including three Cabinet ministers, ...