Al-Shabab and later the Islamic State in Somalia are the most extreme manifestations of this trend. Islamic State in Somalia emerged in 2015 when a small group of al-Shabab members led by ...

Representational AI image The US Africa Command (Africom) said on Saturday it conducted an airstrike in the Puntland region of Somalia, killing several members of the Islamic State (IS).

Muumin defected to lead the Islamic State in Somalia. His second-in-command was another Ali Suleiban clansman, Mahad Moalim. In 2016, the first video of the group was circulated through Islamic State ...

A milestone for the group followed its 2017 suicide bombing of the Juba Hotel in Bosaso, Puntland’s commercial capital and seaport. This enabled the Islamic State in Somalia to pressure Bossaso ...

A milestone for the group followed its 2017 suicide bombing of the Juba Hotel in Bosaso, Puntland's commercial capital and sea port. This enabled the Islamic State in Somalia to pressure Bossaso ...

Somalia has suffered consecutive climate shocks, with below-average rainfall in late 2024 severely reducing crop yields, depleting water sources and leading to livestock losses. The effects of erratic ...

BALIDHIDIN, Somalia — The dead Islamic State fighter was sprawled out on the ridge, bloodstains darkening in the sun, as a line of heavily armed Somali soldiers snaked down the mountainside to a ...

MOGADISHU - A senior commander of Islamic State's Somalia wing was captured on Monday, police and state media said, two days after the IS leadership was targeted with U.S. airstrikes and as ...

The government of Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region said Sunday that US military strikes in the Golis mountains had killed "key figures" in the Islamic State group. US President Donald ...

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Both the central government of Somalia and the semi-autonomous Puntland region welcomed the US-led targeted airstrikes against Islamic State elements on Monday. A statement from the Somali federal ...