Somalia is facing its most severe crisis since the height of its civil war in the 1990s. Al-Shabaab has launched a ...

drawing thousands of people to a facility that had been abandoned for years and later became a base for military — and even extremists — amid civil war. Somali authorities have spent years ...

To zoom out even further, the U.S. is essentially a cobelligerent in the middle of a civil war that has gone through various iterations since the former Somali dictator, Mohamed Siad Barre, was ...

In the early 1990s, the Somali Civil War tore the country apart and brought starvation to millions of people. Dozens of countries, including the United States, attempted to bring supplies to ...

Shortly after, Somalia descended into civil war, culminating in the collapse of the Somali state in 1992. AIAI later dissolved and a group of its younger, hardline recruits joined forces with an ...

When the Somali civil war and subsequent government collapse took place in 1991, these men and women went from being star players at the height of their careers to refugees in an instant.