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The Battle of Mogadishu on October 3–4, 1993, marked one of the most intense urban engagements involving U.S. forces since Vietnam. What began as a mission to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord ...

Days after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, Columbus-area military experts are weighing in on the reasons and ramifications of the escalating conflict — and cautioning that the road ahead is ...

Africa is no longer a peripheral theater but the decisive arena where the United States will either reset a broken relationship and reclaim strategic relevance-or cede the future to China's entrenched ...

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

AUSSOM Force Commander Sam Kavuma, who spoke during a field visit to assess the combat readiness of frontline troops following the successful liberation of the strategic towns of Mubarak and ...

Edna Adan Ismail, 88, says she was working on forging diplomatic relations with Jerusalem as foreign minister two decades ago ...

Qaeda? The Iranian regime's seemingly unlikely partnership with the jihadist group has been largely unremarked upon in the ...

In a new development in the security crisis, Somalia’s President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has issued a general amnesty for fighters of Al-Shabaab, calling on them to surrender and reintegrate ...

Israeli President Herzog is in Addis Ababa days after high-level delegations from Turkiye and Saudi Arabia also visited.

Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab has staged several attacks in Kenya, prompting the border to be closed.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — In a city long defined by conflict, Somalia ’s capital of Mogadishu now echoes with the crash of pins at the country's first modern bowling alley. It's the latest sign of ...