Puntland Defense Forces posed next to a sign in Arabic that proclaimed the mountain town of Sheebaab as a “province” of the ...

Following a 2022 government offensive in the middle part of the country, the situation stabilized and the group was believed to be greatly weakened—but not for long. In the time since, the government ...

A US airstrike in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia has targeted ISIS militants in the Puntland region, ...

The draft of a letter from Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to U.S. President Donald Trump has been leaked.

The Federal Government of Somalia, in collaboration with U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), has successfully executed an airstrike against ISIS militants.The airstrike conducted today by AFRICOM focused ...

Al-Shabaab is rapidly closing in on Mogadishu, threatening commercial and military shipping in the Gulf of Aden and Arabian ...

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

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

The Islamic State in Somalia is an affiliate of the transnational militant group Islamic State, known in short as ISIS. Based in the semi-autonomous northern Somalia territory of Puntland, the ...

Mogadishu is reaching out to Elon Musk and the religious right as Donald Trump’s team reviews America’s Horn of Africa policy. The Somali government has been ramping up its outreach to an unfriendly ...

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 ...