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

When the boundaries of peace are sketched with unsteady hands and the shadows of past violence loom over a fragile federation, even a single reckless act can redraw the map in blood. The Oromo ...

Somalia has been beset by over three decades of conflict and parts of the country are under the sway as Islamist militias while it is also subject to bitter clan rivalries. Somaliland: A breakaway ...

Gunmen attacked a hotel in a town in central Somalia on Tuesday where local elders and government ... in a statement and said it had killed over 10 people. Abdullahi Fidow, a clan elder in Beledweyne, ...

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

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

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The death toll from an al Shabaab attack on a hotel in central Somalia where clan leaders were meeting on Tuesday has risen to 10 and most of the victims were civilians ...