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.

Col. Nur and the 1977-78 Somali-Ethiopian War When Nur died of COVID-19 in June 2020, the Sahan Journal, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to covering immigrants and communities of color in Minneapolis, ...