The ISIS faction in Somalia has become an increasingly important part of its parent organization’s worldwide network in recent years, and was the target of US airstrikes earlier this month.

Leaders of clan-based factions have ruled different parts of Somalia and battled for authority since the collapse of any central government with the 1991 overthrow of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.

“In Somalia, it also started with two factions fighting each other. If this is not resolved today, Sudan will fragment itself tomorrow, making peace a very distant feat,” warned Awes Haji Yusuf Ahmed, ...

East Africa’s Intergovernmental Authority on Development has given Sudan’s warring factions two weeks to ... the tension between Ethiopia and Somalia, made it clear that Somalia’s integrity ...

BOSASO, Somalia (Reuters) – Armed factions in Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland agreed a ceasefire on Wednesday, a local leader said, a day after at least 26 people were killed and 30 ...

Armed factions in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland agreed a ceasefire on Wednesday, a local leader said, a day after at least 26 people were killed and 30 injured in clashes over proposed ...

BOSASO, Somalia (Reuters) - Armed factions in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland agreed a ceasefire on Wednesday, a local leader said, a day after at least 26 people were killed and 30 ...