Here's a look at Somalia, an impoverished, war-torn eastern African country that borders the Gulf of Aden, the Indian Ocean, Ethiopia and Kenya. Somalia is part of the Horn of Africa in the region of ...

May 21 (Reuters) - Somali gunmen kidnapped two Italian aid workers and their Somali colleague on Wednesday in the latest abduction of foreigners in the Horn of Africa country. Kidnapping is a ...

February 26, 2025: On New Year’s day the UN authorized a new peacekeeping force of 11,900 troops. In February the U.S. carried out airstrikes against Islamic terrorists in Puntland, which is in ...

Heightened conflict and climate shocks are increasing humanitarian needs in Somalia as communities work to recover from the country’s most severe drought in four decades, which has reduced food ...

STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. Africa Command has now launched more annual airstrikes in Somalia this year than at any time in the organization’s nearly 20-year history. As of Monday, AFRICOM’s airstrike ...

Somalia is currently facing one of its most challenging periods, riddled with seemingly despondent events. Standing as one of the poorest countries in the world, owing to decades of civil conflicts, ...

Along Somalia’s coastline, thousands of families once relied on fishing for their livelihoods. Today, their boats often return empty. Foreign industrial trawlers, many operating illegally, have ...

(Reuters) - Somali Islamist rebel leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys was seriously injured in fighting between rival Islamist groups and may be dead, a family member and a militia opposed to him said on ...

BALIDHIDIN, Somalia — The dead Islamic State fighter was sprawled out on the ridge, bloodstains darkening in the sun, as a line of heavily armed Somali soldiers snaked down the mountainside to a ...

Here's a look at Somalia, an impoverished, war-torn eastern African country that borders the Gulf of Aden, the Indian Ocean, Ethiopia and Kenya. About Somalia: (CIA World Fact Book)Area: 637,657 sq km ...