The helicopter pilot is worried. Any more than 20 minutes in this shattered frontline village and Somalia's Al-Shabaab militants could start lobbing mortars at their position. Roughly 1,000 Somali ...

Somalia is one of the world's poorest countries and it faces a crisis of health care made worse by the Trump administration's ...

The United States, European Union, and African Union each support Somalia’s military to help combat Al-Shabaab. For almost 20 years, the internationally recognized Somali government has battled the Al ...

Somali national army forces backed by South West State regional troops have launched a sweeping security operation across several villages under Wanlaweyn district in the Lower Shabelle region, ...

Over the last few weeks, troops from the Somali National Army (SNA), backed by clan-based militias, African Union forces, and U.S. air support, have steadily made progress against Shabaab, al Qaeda’s ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan military official says that allied African troops have taken full control of Somalia's Kismayo port, the last stronghold of the Islamist extremist rebels who are ...

FILE - African Union peacekeepers from Uganda provide security as Somali lawmakers arrive to cast their vote in the presidential election, at the Halane military camp in Mogadishu, Somalia Sunday, May ...

A section of Jubbaland Special forces surrendered to the Somalia National Army in Somalia's Belet Hawa District. Four Kenyas have been hit by stray bullets in Mandera. [Ibrahim Adan Ali/Standard] Four ...