The Somali state of Puntland is witnessing an escalation of security challenges with an increase in military confrontations against the Islamic State ...

US Africa Command (AFRICOM) has carried out strikes against Islamic State positions in Somalia, according to an official ...

US fighter jets conducted intense airstrikes overnight, as part of counter-terrorism operations, on the Mirali Valley in Bari Province, Puntland State, northeastern Somalia, where ISIS-affiliated ...

The group has recruits from Kenya, Tanzania, Argentina and other countries around the ...

BOSASO, Somalia - For ... led by the United States African Command (AFRICOM) with the federal government had targeted “known hideouts of Daesh terrorists” based in the Calmiskaat mountains in the semi ...

Bosaos (Smn) — ISIS fighters have reportedly attacked a Puntland military base ... which controls large parts of Somalia. The group's fighters are estimated to be 1,500, mostly scattered ...

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

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 ...

NAIROBI - Somalia is prepared to offer the United ... while Bosaso is in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland.

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

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somalia is prepared to offer the United ... while Bosaso is in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland. (Reporting by Ammu Kannampilly in Nairobi and Abdi Sheikh in Mogadishu ...