MOGADISHU, Somalia - Military operations cannot effectively end the Al-Shabaab menace in Somalia, a top European Union envoy has said, in the middle of sustained aggression against the militants, who ...

Somalia offered to renew a deal that allows the US to access its ports and airports for military purposes, countering a similar proposal by the breakaway region of Somaliland.

Lieutenant General Odowaa Yusuf Rage, Chief of the Somali Armed Forces, acknowledged before parliament last November that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Somali Defence Minister Ahmed Moallim Fiqi Ahmed speaks during a plenary session of the Xiangshan Forum in Beijing on September 19 ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Somali authorities are unlawfully detaining and at times prosecuting in military courts children with alleged ties to the Islamist armed group Al-Shabab, Human Rights Watch said in a ...

Iran's recent retaliatory strikes against US and Israeli bases have drawn backlash from various Muslim-majority countries. As ...

Somalia's defense minister Ahmed Moallim Fiqi hailed a new chapter in defence cooperation when he announced on X that he and Saudi Arabia's Prince Khalid Bin Salman had signed a military deal in ...

The Commander of the Somali National Army (SNA), Gen. Ibrahim Mohamed Mohamud, has directed all military units to actively assist in relief efforts for communities affected by severe drought in parts ...

At least eight Somali soldiers were killed when the Al-Shabaab jihadist group overran their military camp on the outskirts of the town of Kismayo early Saturday, military officials and local elders ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is ending a military training programme in Somalia in response to the seizure of millions of dollars and the temporary holding of a UAE plane by Somali ...

A dispute over the electoral system and donor fatigue could unravel a decades-old state-building project, writes Omar S Mahmood.