Somalia

Nairobi - Eleven sailors mostly from Asia held hostage for almost four years by Somali pirates have been freed and are safe on their...

Somali troops have retaken the presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu after al-Shabab fighters forced their way in and exchanged heavy gunfire with soldiers...

Somali traffic police officers say they are ready to take up arms to defend themselves after al-Shabaab issued specific threats against them and killed...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hard-won security gains in Somalia could be undermined unless the rest of the world steps up support to improve Somalis' lives,...

Militant Islamists in Somalia have shot dead a Muslim woman for refusing to wear a veil, her relatives say. The nomadic woman was killed outside...

A roadside bomb hit a passenger minibus near the Somali capital Mogadishu early Thursday, with witnesses putting the death toll at 15. Police officer Nur Hassan was...

Islamist rebels shot dead three members of Somalia's security forces in the capital on Sunday, police and witnesses said on the first day of...

Somali citizens and analysts are taken aback by the revelation that a man working inside the Villa Somalia presidential compound helped al-Shabaab pass through...

Al-Shabab fighters in Somalia have killed "scores" of African Union troops in an attack south of capital, Mogadishu, a spokesman for the armed group...

SAYLA (Somalilandsun) – The road linking Somaliland with Djibouti is to be tarmacked. This was informed by the Selel regional governor Abdirizaq Waaberi Roble while...