MOGADISHU-- Somali national forces, backed by Jubbaland state army, on Thursday killed three al-Shabab militants in an operation in Lower Juba region in southern Somalia, a military official said on Friday. (more…)

Kenya is staying out of the US-Iranian tiff in what senior officials see as a way of keeping trouble at bay. (more…)

Witnesses and medical services in the Somali capital say at least four people were killed and 15 others injured by a suicide car bomb Wednesday in the center of Mogadishu. (more…)

At the peak of the problem, in 2011, there were 237 incidents of piracy off Somalia and the Gulf of Aden (the sea separating Somalia and Yemen), accounting for more than half of all such incidents worldwide. The pirates would often hold shipping crews hostage for ransom. Somali piracy cost...

State security forces arrested 38 journalists, while 37 were beaten, shot at or threatened at gunpoint, report says. (more…)

Kenya has long been worried Iran was trying to cultivate ties with al-Shabab (more…)

More than 200 fires burning and temperature records smashed as government criticised over inaction (more…)

Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN)Al Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for a truck bombing in Somalia that killed 85 people outside Mogadishu, the group's spokesman said. (more…)

Officials said a truck filled with explosives blew up at a busy intersection in the capital. Shabab militants are suspected in the attack. (more…)

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA - Officials in Somalia say al-Shabab extremists killed three soldiers during an attack on a military base in the southwest on Monday. (more…)