MOGADISHU, Somalia — A car bomb exploded Tuesday at a hotel in the central Somali city of Beledweyne, kicking off an hourslong militant attack that killed an unknown number of people.

Somali security forces have ended a deadly 24-hour siege by Islamist fighters who stormed a popular hotel in the central city of Beledweyne, authorities said. The attack by al-Shabab began with a ...

The armed group claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack on the Cairo Hotel in the town of Beledweyne in a statement. Several people are reported to have been killed. The gunmen detonated a ...

Beledweyne, Somalia — Al-Shabaab militants stormed a hotel in central Somalia's Beledweyne on Tuesday, killing at least seven people, including local elders and officials, in a deadly siege that ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... government’s offensive against al-Shabab. The mayor of Beledweyne, Omar Alasow, on Wednesday said security forces ...

Frame grab from video shoot Wednesday, March 12, 2025, showing the aftermath of a car bomb exploded Tuesday at a hotel in the central Somali city of Beledweyne Voting ends in Greenland election ...