The U.S. War Department defended ongoing military raids in Somalia, insisting the operations do not mark a return to long-term conflict. A senior official said the administration is following an “America First” approach,

Somalia is one of the world’s poorest countries and it faces a crisis of health care made worse by the Trump administration's deep cuts in foreign aid.

Imagine a place where your family name is more important than your ideas. This is Somalia, where clan loyalty is more powerful than any law. The current voting system is like a dance everyone knows. It survived a civil war but now faces a big challenge.

Jan 23 (Reuters) - Ethiopian forces who helped Somalia's interim government rout rival Islamists began leaving the chaotic Horn of Africa nation's capital on Tuesday, Ethiopia said. Here is a chronology of recent events in Somalia: Oct. 2004 - In 14th ...

The president said Tuesday that residents of the war-ravaged eastern African country are too reliant on U.S. social safety net and add little to the United States.

It was still possible, this summer, to see some hope in Somalia. The country was in dire need of some. The Ethiopian army, which invaded last December, had killed thousands of Somalis and lost thousands of its own in some of the fiercest fighting that the ...

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D) said Wednesday the Minnesotan Somali community is part of “the fabric of our state,” comments that follow attacks on Somalis from President Trump. “I just

The Somali civil war did not begin overnight. It was the result of decades of political tension, clan rivalries, economic collapse, and the breakdown of central authority. This video explores the key events and decisions that led Somalia from dictatorship to full-scale conflict.