BERBERA, Somalia — To glimpse America's secret war in Africa, you must bang with a rock on the iron gate of the prison in this remote port in northern Somalia.

For several years, online rumors have alleged that U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's father, Nur Omar Mohamed, committed war crimes as a military officer in Somalia before immigrating to the U.S. as a refugee.

The Sky Is a Front in a Boundless War. The Trump administration’s airstrikes are only the newest chapter in a covert war that has persisted across multiple years, administrations and political parties ...

After almost a decade of hibernation, Somali pirates have resurfaced. Their reemergence follows the Yemeni Houthi movement’s campaign to target Red Sea shipping in support of Hamas in its war ...

On Saturday, Trump ramped up America’s longest-running war, carrying out a strike in Somalia that killed an unspecified number of people. “These killers, who we found hiding in caves, ...

Shortly after, Somalia descended into civil war, culminating in the collapse of the Somali state in 1992. ... (TFG) in October 2004 in Kenya, the ICU gained control of Mogadishu in June 2006.

BERBERA, Somalia — To glimpse America's secret war in Africa, you must bang with a rock on the iron gate of the prison in this remote port in northern Somalia. A sleepy guard will yank open a ...

From the Vietnam War of the 1960s and ’70s to the U.S. war in Afghanistan from the 2000s to the ... deaths in Somalia from Islamist violence hit a record high of 7,643 — triple the number in ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A stadium in Somalia’s violence-prone capital is hosting its first soccer tournament in three decades, drawing thousands of people to a facility that had been abandoned for ...