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NAIROBI — Just as soon as the U.S. military closed out a year in which it struck al-Shabab militants more times than ever — at a pace of just over one airstrike per week — the Somali militant group carried out its most brazen and successful attack on U.S. forces in its...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Thirteen people have been confirmed dead at an internally displaced persons camp in Kahda district in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. (more…)

NAIROBI - Suspected al Shabaab militants shot dead three teachers in Kenya near the border with Somalia on Monday and burned down a police station, police said, in what appeared to be the latest in a string of assaults by the group since the New Year. (more…)

Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute has published a series of articles in the National Interest and other publications that seemed aimed to destabilize a concerted effort by the federal government of Somalia and its international allies to settle Somalia’s longstanding external debt. This would have doomed our nation. (more…)

Area liberated after raid on base to ‘clear remnants of the militants from their hideouts,’ says military commander (more…)

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…)