The trial of a Somali man accused of kidnapping Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout has started. (more…)

Somalia’s Bakool region has officially banned the use of khat, a a flowering plant popular in the Horn of Africa region and used as a stimulant. (more…)

Islamic State militants have claimed responsibility for an attack in the Somali town of Bosaso. (more…)

Islamic State militants have claimed responsibility for an attack in the Somali town of Bosaso. (more…)

A Somali-born refugee has been charged with five counts of attempted murder in connection with a weekend attack in Edmonton, Alberta. (more…)

OTTAWA — More than nine years after journalist Amanda Lindhout was taken hostage in Somalia, a man will face trial Monday in an Ottawa courtroom. (more…)

Turkish Chief of Staff General Hulusi Akar, second left, and Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre, second right, receive a salute from a Somali soldier at combined Turkey-Somali training center during his visit to Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017. The Turkish government has opened a military base, its largest...

Suicide car bombers, gunmen attack Barire military outpost outside Mogadishu in a brazen assault by the armed group. (more…)

Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has met with Saudi King Salman Abdulaziz on Wednesday during his two-day official visit to the Kingdom amid tensions over Somalia’s neutral position in the Gulf crisis. (more…)

Al-Shabab militants have launched what appears to be a forced recruitment campaign in Somalia's southwestern regions of Bay and Bakool, according to Somali officials. (more…)