The leader of the Pro-Islamic State group in Somalia has survived U.S. airstrikes which targeted caves in a remote mountainous area in Puntland, the region’s president told VOA Somali. (more…)

The US army says it has conducted two separate air strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in northeastern Somalia, killing several members of the group. (more…)

TEL AVIV, Israel — In a dusty detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, Tomas Yomani, an asylum seeker from Eritrea in East Africa, has been biding his time for nine months while under the watch of Israeli guards. (more…)

Thousands of Ethiopian troops enter Somalia to join new offensive against al-Shabab extremists. (more…)

Thousands of Ethiopian troops enter Somalia to join new offensive against al-Shabab extremists. (more…)

A Somali soldier on guard on the beach in the coast of Qaw, in Puntland, north-eastern Somalia on December, 18, 2016. (more…)

Unidentified gunmen thought to be Al Shabaab assassins have shot and killed a civilian man in Mogadishu, the Somali capital on Tuesday morning, witnesses said. (more…)

POLICE have declared there were no suspicious circumstances to a Brisbane woman’s death, after her body was found on the city’s bayside yesterday. (more…)

MOGADISHU: Somali authorities imposed a daytime ban on Monday on the movement of large trucks and road tankers inside the capital Mogadishu in an attempt to improve security following a wave of devastating attacks by militants. (more…)

Five attackers from Islamist al-Shabaab group stormed hotel in NISA uniforms after a truck bomb destroyed the front entrance. (more…)