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Puntland Defense Forces posed next to a sign in Arabic that proclaimed the mountain town of Sheebaab as a “province” of the Islamic State group. The town, located in Somalia’s autonomous northeastern ...

After its battlefield defeat, it’s unclear if the Islamic State in Somalia retains the ability to extort money from the ...

Al-Shabaab is rapidly closing in on Mogadishu, threatening commercial and military shipping in the Gulf of Aden and Arabian ...

The attack marks the third seizure in recent weeks. In February, pirates seized a dhow called the Saytuun-2. That Feb. 17 attack came just days after another pirate attack on another Yemeni fishing ...

The adopted resolution also recognizes the particular concern posed by the flow of weapons from Yemen to Somalia. Al-Shabaab’s links to the Houthis are part of a wider pattern of Houthi destabilizing ...

The Trump administration has terminated several critical humanitarian programs across the Middle East, impacting food, water, ...

Rather than punish Somaliland for doing the right thing, tweaking the visa ban to allow Somalilanders but prohibit those from Mogadishu-controlled Somalia would send the signal that behavior and ...

The small Gulf monarchy has tapped into secessionist causes from Libya, to Yemen, Sudan and Somalia, using surrogates as Trojan horses to generate strategic depth and influence. Like Iran’s ...