Authorities in Somalia are investigating the circumstances surrounding a recent U.S. airstrike after claims that a village elder killed in the operation was wrongly targeted, according to a major ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Diphtheria cases and deaths have risen sharply this year in Somalia, where the response has been curtailed by vaccine shortages and U.S. aid cuts, Somali officials said. More than ...

Five years and 155 days after Abdi Aden Abdi arrived in Tucson, having left a Kenyan refugee camp where thousands of fellow Somali Bantu struggled to live amid squalor, misery and distress, he walked ...

STUTTGART, Germany — The U.S. military has launched its most intensive Somalia bombing campaign on record, carrying out more than 50 airstrikes in the country since the start of the year, U.S. Africa ...

They are students from various war-torn African countries, schooling in Kenya, and they share one painful experience: they have never known peace and stability in their home countries. Many of those ...

Somalia will begin trading equities and government-issued sukuk bonds on a new exchange early next year, as the Horn of Africa nation seeks integration into regional and global financial markets. The ...

U.S. forces conducted an airstrike against the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabab over the weekend in Somalia. The airstrike by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) targeted an area nearly 40 miles northwest of ...

The decision comes as Taipei has worked to build its ties with Somaliland, a breakaway territory that declared independence from Somalia decades ago. By Abdi Latif Dahir Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya ...

President Donald Trump issued a stern warning to the Houthis by saying it was time for them to hide now that he has removed "dangerous red tape" from the Biden administration, allowing U.S. troops to ...

Some State Department officials have proposed closing the embassy in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, as a precaution after recent gains by Al Shabab militants. By Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — The draft of a letter from Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to U.S. President Donald Trump offering exclusive access to air bases and seaports has reignited tensions between ...

We have seen this movie before with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Now its sequel is playing out to devastating effect in Somalia. Al-Shabaab — a Salafi Jihadist confederation — is rapidly securing ...