Islamic extremist fighters killed four Somali government soldiers and briefly took a town near the border with Kenya Monday, a military official said. The dawn attack on the town of Beled-Hawo started with a suicide car bombing targeting government troops' front-line defenses. A gunfight then ...
Two Kenyan police officers were killed Sunday by gunmen on a motorbike as they were guarding a church near the Indian Ocean, in an attack police believe could be the work of al-Shabab militants. "An investigation has been launched and we are not ruling out ...
Six migrants drowned and 13 were missing Thursday when smugglers forced 180 Ethiopian migrants off a boat bound for Yemen, a day after a similar incident left 50 dead, the International Organization for Migration said. Survivors managed to make their way to Shabwa province, along ...
U.S. forces launched a fresh strike at al-Shabab militants in Somalia over the weekend, the second such attack in a month, defense officials said Monday. The attack Sunday was a "kinetic strike operation," said Patrick Barnes, a spokesman for the U.S. Africa Command. That term usually ...
Gunmen posing as military forces were holding an unknown number of hostages inside a popular restaurant in Somalia's capital in an attack that began when a car bomb exploded at the gate, police and a witness said, while the extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility. ...
U.S. forces carried out a strike in conjunction with Somali special forces Sunday against al-Shabab approximately 185 miles (300 km) southwest of Mogadishu, according to the Pentagon. The Pentagon said the operation occurred at approximately 0600 GMT "in coordination with regional partners as a direct ...
Somalia's government and its foreign backers on Thursday signed a security pact that they presented as a road map toward building a functional national army capable of taking on the fight against al-Shabab militants. The al-Qaida-linked Islamist militant group has lost much of the territory ...
Pirates have returned to the waters off Somalia, but the spike in attacks on commercial shipping does not yet constitute a trend, senior U.S. officials said Sunday. The attacks follow about a five-year respite for the region, where piracy had grown to crisis proportions during ...
The United Nations warned Tuesday of a growing risk of mass deaths from starvation in areas of the Horn of Africa, Yemen and Nigeria that are affected by conflict and drought. An "avoidable humanitarian crisis ... is fast becoming an inevitability" as the U.N. faces ...
The captain of the crew of a Comoros-flagged oil tanker that was hijacked and then released by Somali pirates said he feels like he was "dead and born," after the ship reached a port in northern Somalia. Nicholas Anthony said Sunday he is grateful for ...
Somali Islamists are letting civilians in drought-hit regions under their control move with relative freedom to find food, the group and a U.N. official said on Thursday, but they are continuing to restrict the access of international aid groups. Somalia, struggling to recover from more ...
Somali pirates on Thursday handed over an oil tanker and eight Sri Lankan hostages captured just days ago, the Oceans Beyond Piracy NGO told AFP, bringing to a close the first such attack since 2012. "The Puntland maritime police force freed the ship. They made ...
