The Somali region’s leaders vow to keep pressure on the IS hub, which is seen as a key spoke in the Islamic State network ...

A transitional parliament for Somalia -- the first since the Horn of Africa country dissolved into chaos in 1991 -- was formally inaugurated in the neighboring state of Djibouti on Sunday. Djibouti's ...

Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland has rejected an attempt by the central government to give the US exclusive control ...

Several Islamic State group operatives were killed in an US airstrike on Puntland, in the latest US strikes on the region ...

A milestone for the group followed its 2017 suicide bombing of the Juba Hotel in Bosaso, Puntland’s commercial capital and ...

Since 2023, when conflict erupted in Laascaanood, the movement of goods between Puntland State of Somalia and… Sii akhri ...

BOSASO, Somalia - For the umpteenth time ... For the last three months, the Puntland forces have been conducting operations against ISIS with the help of the US Africa Command and the United Arab ...

Somalia is prepared to offer the United States exclusive control of strategic air bases and ports, its president said in a ...

BOSASO, Somalia - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) struct several bases controlled ... The ISIS militants, mostly foreigners, had established more permanent bases in Puntland state, with the ultimate ...

The official language is Somali, although Arabic is also widely spoken ... and Garowe Airport in Puntland. Somalia does not have a national airline, but several regional airlines operate flights ...

After losing its caliphate in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has become a more disparate group and has established a financial and operational hub in remote northern Somalia. Military forces in the ...

The United Arab Emirates has been providing ... "Indications [are] that the Puntland forces are making real progress against ISIS in Somalia's hideouts," a former senior Western counterterrorism ...