Portland, Maine -- 10 low-income Somali teens from Portland are taking part in a pilot training program in organic farm management. This past M ...Read more

Memphis police want to find the men who ran their SUV into a gas station and stole an ATM. ...Read more

Amatuer video shot from a car driving through the streets of Tehran, Iran. Footage shows police presence and protesters squaring off on the streets. ...Read more

A federal grand jury has indicted a group of Somali-Americans on terror-related charges after more than 20 young men from the Minneapolis area were recruite ...Read more

ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian police shot dead two Somali migrants on Thursday who tried to slip across the Sinai desert border into Israel, security ...Read more

Addressing a news conference at Nairobi’s Hilton Hotel, Swedish Ambassador Mrs Anna Brandt, said the crisis was of “serious concer ...Read more

• Girl, 14, escapes with cuts and a fractured collarbone • Black boxes located in ocean near Comoros islands A teenage g ...Read more

Debris has been spotted off the Comoros islands in the Indian ocean where an ...Read more

Iraqi forces have assumed formal control of the capital, Baghdad, and other cities, six years after US-led coalition forces invaded Iraq. ...Read more

Stars attending a pre-BET awards party talk about how Michael Jackson influenced their music and stage performances. (June 28) ...Read more

Associated Press Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration's recent move to increase aid to Somalia takes aim at Islamic extremis ...Read more

"U.S. Sends Weapons to Help Somali Government Repel Rebels Tied to Al-Qaeda" misstated Bush administration policy toward Somalia. The Bush administration did not focus "almost exclusive ...Read more

The U.S. government has provided about 40 tons of weapons and ammunition to shore up the besieged government of Somalia in the past six weeks and has sent f ...Read more

It is a tragic day for the world of music as King of Pop Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest. ...Read more

Nairobi — Kenya's military is preparing to protect its borders and refugees seeking a safe haven in the country following threats by extremists in Somalia to attack Nairobi. The extremists, who ...Read more

 In Somalia's capital, the radical Islamist al-Shabab militia amputated a hand and a foot each from four young men accused of stealing guns and mobile ...Read more

 Connecticut Church Posts Controversial Gay Exorcism Video on YouTube.    ...Read more

Nairobi - The suicide bomber who blew himself up and killed 19 other people in western Somalia last week was a 17-year-old Somali, the hardline Islamist She ...Read more

Kampala/Mogadishu - Uganda is ready to send more troops to Somalia, where the government is facing a fierce onslaught by Islamist insurgents, a senior gover ...Read more

Will the recruits training for Somalia's new navy - its first in decades - prove capable against threats such as piracy? Considering that Mogadishu is also ...Read more

NAIROBI - Scores of Somali legislators have fled violence at home to the safety of other countries in Africa, Europe and the United States, leaving the conflict-torn nation's parliament without a quor ...Read more

 June 23 (Reuters) - Somali pirates freed Dutch freighter the Marathon on Tuesday, however one of the Ukrainian crew was shot dead by the pirates, the ...Read more

Several dozen refugee families who were scheduled to arrive in Utah later this year will likely be resettled elsewhere,as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops struggles to help families amid a dire ...Read more

There are scholars one can disagree with and learn nothing from them, for example the two Samatar brothers (Abdi Ismail Samatar and Ahmad Ismail Samatar). There are also scholars one can disagree with ...Read more

A man and woman have been found guilty of starving their autistic daughter to death. The seven-year-old girl died in November 2007 at her home in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, weighing just nine ...Read more

The South Korean government hosted the “Seoul High-Level Meeting on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia” on June 9-10 in Seoul. ...Read more

NAZRAN, Russia (AP) - A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy carrying the president of the troubled Russian province of Ingushetia Monday, critically wounding him and killing two bodyguards - the late ...Read more

As we mark World Refugee Day on June 20, the number of people forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution worldwide stands at more than 42 million - inclu ...Read more

A Continental passenger plane en route from Brussels to New York landed safely at Newark airport on Thursday (local time) after the pilot died during the fl ...Read more

At least 18 Africans have drowned after a smuggler's boat carrying 88 African refugees from Somalia to Yemen capsized this week in the Gulf of Aden, said th ...Read more

 A Somali politician has been killed by gunmen in the capital, Mogadishu, the government has confirmed. Mohamed Hussein Addow's killing is the third of a high-profile public figure in as many d ...Read more

The Discovery Channel is featuring a special, Somali Pirate Takedown, about the recent dramatic true story of the rescue or Captain Richard Phillips by the ...Read more

Early this year, a young Somali-American disappeared from his home in Minneapolis. Burhan Hassan, 17, had gone to Africa to join a Somali militia group call ...Read more

Piracy off the coast of East Africa is increasing the risk premium of shipping through these waters and threatening to reduce maritime traffic through the Red Sea. As naval forces try to secure th ...Read more

Mogadishu, June 18: Somalia's Interior Minister was among 10 people killed on Thursday in a suicide bombing at a hotel in Beledweyne, north of the capital, management at the hotel who witnessed the bl ...Read more