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

Ilhan Omar's father, Nur Omar Mohamed, committed war crimes as a military officer in Somalia before immigrating to the U.S.

In February 2025, Kenyan President William Ruto signed a proclamation to officially abolish arduous identification card vetting requirements for residents of the northeastern part of the country.

Before the establishment of the Islamic State in Somalia in 2015, the Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab had established itself in the north. The small group had extensive connections to smuggling ...

True ethnic cleansing is what happened to the Jews, 99% of whom were driven out of their pre-Islamic communities in a single generation. On October 7, 2023, Hamas just sought to finish the job.

The Trump administration and Israel approached the governments of Sudan and Somalia, and have also been interested in Syria, ...

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 States government has cautioned that unregulated trade between Kenya and Somalia facilitates money laundering by ... “Foreign nationals, including refugees and ethnic Somali residents, ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - In what could raise concerns about the security of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the Al-Shabaab militants reportedly targeted his convoy in the outskirts of Mogadishu, the ...

In this article, we explore Nigeria’s ethnic diversity, listing the ethnic groups within each state.

Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud dismissed his defence minister, Abuldkadir Mohamed Nur, on Sunday following lobbying efforts by the US military, sources told Middle East Eye.