A senior ISIL (ISIS) commander in Somalia has been captured, police and state media have said, as security forces continue a ...

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 security forces ...

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he ordered military strikes that killed several ISIS militants in Somalia.

Donald Trump said he has ordered the US military to conduct airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) operatives in Somalia. The ...

But the new government has struggled to maintain control, as both al Shabaab and another hard-line Islamist insurgency, Hizbul Islam, have taken over much of central and southern Somalia.

Defence secretary Pete Hegseth says strikes directed by Donald Trump and co-ordinated with Somalian government ...

Europe can help stabilise the Horn of Africa with a daunting project: a commercial corridor in Somalia that allows Ethiopia ...

For many years, it was considered a minor security threat in the Horn of Africa country compared with al Shabaab, which controls swathes of southern Somalia. In recent years, however, the Somali ...

Over 90,000 people in war-torn southern Somalia have been hit by weeks of severe flooding, almost half of them forced from their homes, the United Nations has warned. "More than 90,000 people have ...

One of the strikes killed Mohamed Mire, a top al-Shabab commander, on Dec. 24 in southern Somalia. Sheikh himself was trained by the U.S. and previously served as the commander of Danab.

For almost a month, security forces in the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland have been advancing on the mountainous ...