US Navy SEALs staged an overnight helicopter raid deep into Somalia's pirate heartlands to rescue two aid workers from America and Denmark held there for three months. Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Poul T ...Read more

UN Special Representative moves to Mogadishu - first time in 17 years- Mogadishu, 24 January 2012 – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, Ambassador Augustin ...Read more

Camel milk and health- Publication by: Dr. M.G. Smits*, Dr. A. Alting** , Dr. T. Huppertz**, Dr. J. Kiers** ...Read more

People who cheat at social games are cheaters in real life too. So says a survey by casual game maker PopCap Games. The survey looked at the habits of more than 1,200 adult consumers. Of those who ad ...Read more

GARISSA, Kenya — An al-Qaida affiliated Somali militant group said Thursday that it took several hostages in a raid in northern Kenya that killed at least six people. Three policemen, a civil s ...Read more

  The US military is investigating a video showing what appears to be troops urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The footage of what seems to be US marines has be ...Read more

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia, starting Thursday, will implement the Ministry of Labor rule that only females can work in women's lingerie stores. The Labor Ministry says that over 28,000 women have already ap ...Read more

Piracy is a serious problem in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. While NATO, Russian, Iranian, and Chinese ships all escort merchant vessels through the Gulf of Aden, foreign militaries can't be ...Read more

Now you can finally learn how to land a job at Google. One of the company's top recruiters, Micheal Junge, is publishing a book, Purple Squirrel — a term used by employers to desc ...Read more

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A Somali family that was visited by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a tent city approximately four months ago have named their 2-month old baby boy "Turkiye".    ...Read more

ABC News 20/20 gives viewers the most complete picture yet of the death of Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, from inside the situation room in Washington, DC to inside the compound in P ...Read more

One of the most frequent complaints I heard during my recent visit to Mogadishu was the lack of physical presence of United Nations staff in this war-torn city.This sounded very odd to me considering ...Read more

Born as one of two identical twin brothers, Wyatt and Jonas Maines never felt as similar as they looked. While Jonas was living the life of a typical American boy, his brother Wyatt never seemed to e ...Read more

BUR GARBO, Somalia (AP) — Trade stopped months ago when Kenyan soldiers came here in pursuit of al-Qaida-linked militants. Now thousands of unsold bags of charcoal are stacked 15 high, and fishe ...Read more

VIENNA, Austria � Austrian authorities said Thursday they arrested an elderly Turkish-born man suspected of fatally shooting a younger Turkish associate and slicing off the victim's penis in wh ...Read more

  MINNEAPOLIS –  Tens of thousands of Somalis living in Minnesota might be forced to find another way to send money to relatives in their homeland after a bank that handles the majori ...Read more

When Gaddafi fled, his female bodyguards ["The Revolutionary Nuns" or "Amazonian Guard"] also disbanded, but still many of them were tracked down. According to information organiz ...Read more

A statement from Anwar al Awlaki's father, Dr. Nassar Al-Awlaki, condemning US drone strikes, including the two that killed his son and grandson in September and October, 2011.       ...Read more

Women with sexy eyes in Saudi Arabia may be forced to cover them up, according to the spokesperson of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) in the conservative G ...Read more

For the Xhosa in South Africa, a boy's coming of age is often marked by an elaborate and lengthy set of rituals. One of the ordeals is circumcision, which is traditionally performed by a healer a ...Read more

  Grateful? Write it down. Think about it. Talk about it. 'Tis the season of thanking, and not only will you spread those positive vibrations to those around you, your health will benefit, too. ...Read more

The United Nations has announced that three regions in Somalia have emerged from the famine but warned that nearly 250,000 people still face imminent starvation in the African country, Press TV&n ...Read more

Kenya and the African Union are to combine their forces in the campaign against Al-Shabaab in a major strategic shift which could change the face of the Somalia war.The operation will bring together ...Read more

Obama pays tribute to US-Aust alliance- US President Barack Obama has paid tribute to the US-Australia alliance in a personal message written in the prime minister's visitors book. "To the peop ...Read more

Assuming he is convert from Islam, victim’s countrymen leave him for dead. NAIROBI, Kenya – A Somali Christian in Kenya is nursing injuries after young Muslim men from his count ...Read more

A third shipment of arms has been made to Al-Shabaab, the Somali terror group that Kenyan troops are fighting, military spokesman Major Emmanuel Chirchir has said. (Read: Two planes fly arms to A ...Read more

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A fighter jet struck a rebel base near the militant-bastion port city of Kismayu on Sunday, as Kenyan and Somali troops edged closer to another town hoping to strike a quick ...Read more

British government under pressure to act as economic costs of Indian Ocean attacks mount  A British couple held captive by Somali pirates for 13 months have launched a scathing attack on Britain ...Read more

Kenyan jets were on Wednesday pounding al Shabaab positions in Somalia as ground forces prepared a fresh assault against the militia group. The airstrikes were carried out in areas between Kismayu ...Read more