The helicopter pilot is worried. Any more than 20 minutes in this shattered frontline village and Somalia's Al-Shabaab militants could start lobbing mortars at their position. Roughly 1,000 Somali ...

The United States, European Union, and African Union each support Somalia’s military to help combat Al-Shabaab. For almost 20 years, the internationally recognized Somali government has battled the Al ...

Somalia is one of the world’s poorest countries and it faces a crisis of health care made worse by the Trump administration's ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Exactly 65 years ago today, Somalia gave birth to a strong army with a revolutionary reputation, participating in several liberation wars across the continent as a founder member ...

Over the last few weeks, troops from the Somali National Army (SNA), backed by clan-based militias, African Union forces, and U.S. air support, have steadily made progress against Shabaab, al Qaeda’s ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan military official says that allied African troops have taken full control of Somalia's Kismayo port, the last stronghold of the Islamist extremist rebels who are ...

FILE - African Union peacekeepers from Uganda provide security as Somali lawmakers arrive to cast their vote in the presidential election, at the Halane military camp in Mogadishu, Somalia Sunday, May ...

African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) leadership visit a mass casualty exercise in Somalia Oct. 31, 2019. (Photo by Airman 1st Class Brennen Lege/Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa Combat ...

Not long after U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, became the first Somali American and first hijab-wearing Muslim woman elected to Congress, rumors about her family's background began ...