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

from the mandate period to the military regime in Somalia, culminating in the fall of the centralized state in 1991. Notable attempts for oil and gas exploration were undertaken by researchers such as ...

Take South West State, for example: it’s officially given the FGS the cold shoulder and joined forces with Puntland and Jubaland ... bluntly put it, “Somalia may soon exist only on maps.” The question ...

One month ago, on the morning of Feb. 4, forces from Somalia’s Puntland region attacked Islamic State terror group fighters, who responded with drones, suicide ...

After its battlefield defeat, it’s unclear if the Islamic State in Somalia retains the ability to extort money from the ...

Washington — One month ago, on the morning of Feb. 4, forces from Somalia's Puntland region attacked Islamic State terror group fighters, who responded with drones ...

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 ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The United States army may not pull out from Puntland state any soon since it's keen to double efforts in the fight against ISIS militants, a senior Pentagon official told VOA, ...

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 ...

A milestone for the group followed its 2017 suicide bombing of the Juba Hotel in Bosaso, Puntland’s commercial capital and sea port. This enabled the Islamic State in Somalia to pressure Bossaso ...