This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 3 April 2024 Puntland, an arid region of north-east Somalia, declared itself an autonomous state in August 1998, in part to avoid the ...

Puntland's elite security forces killed more than 35 ISIS militants, including several foreign fighters, during a major military operation in the mountainous rural areas between Miraale and Balade in ...

IS in Somalia - with an estimated 700 to 1,500 fighters in Puntland's mountains - is much smaller than al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab, which controls large parts of southern and central Somalia.

(Bloomberg) -- The oil-rich, semiautonomous region of Puntland said it will operate as a state that’s independent from Somalia until changes to the Somali constitution adopted on Saturday are ...

Armed factions in Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland have agreed to a ceasefire, a local leader told Reuters news agency on Wednesday, a day after at least 26 people were killed and 30 ...

GAROWE, Somalia, Dec 7 (Reuters) - The parliament of Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland state will choose the state's next leader on Jan. 8, after current leader Said Abdullahi Deni dropped ...