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MOGADISHU, Nov. 14 -- Somalia on Tuesday vowed to intensify military operations against Islamist State (IS) and Al-Shabaab militants to stabilize the Horn of Africa nation. (more…)

MOGADISHU -- Somalia on Tuesday vowed to intensify military operations against Islamist State (IS) and Al-Shabaab militants to stabilize the Horn of Africa nation. (more…)

Somaliland, the self-declared republic in northwestern Somalia, has announced it will restrict access to social media sites during its upcoming presidential elections. (more…)

A "prolific and violent offender" has won £78,500 damages from the Home Office for being unlawfully detained. (more…)

 Somali family celebrated a milestone Wednesday night when the 150th family member arrived in Canada, in the 150th year of Canada's founding. (more…)

WASHINGTON / MINNEAPOLIS — Four Somali-Americans won races for public office in local elections that took place around the U.S. on Tuesday. (more…)

MOGADISHU —  African Union peacekeeping troops will start withdrawing from Somalia next month, says the head of the AU mission in the country. (more…)

African Union troops in Somalia have launched an operation to flush out al-Shabab militants from the Lower Shabelle region and secure main supply routes in the area. (more…)

The editor-in-chief of a newspaper in southern Sweden has explained to The Local how a fake news story about a fictional rape was packaged up to look like it was published in the paper's name. (more…)

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…)