Security forces are on the trail of gunmen who kidnapped a foreigner in a semi-autonomous province of central Somalia, a local security official said on Saturday.

"The administration sent dozens of s

Ethiopian troops and Somali government forces seized control of a key Somali city on Saturday after battling Islamist rebels on the outskirts, leaving at least 18 dead, sources said.

The city, Beledw

Islamist extremist group Al-Qaeda has donated food, money and clothes to Somalia in an apparent publicity push that shows its close ties with the Shebab rebels, a monitoring service said on Friday.

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Islamist extremist group Al-Qaeda has donated food, money and clothes to Somalia in an apparent publicity push that shows its close ties with the Shebab rebels, a monitoring service said on Friday.

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A car bomb ripped through a government compound in Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing around 50 people in one of Somalia's deadliest ever suicide attacks, officials and witnesses said.

The attack was clai

Somalia’s extremist Islam fighters have banned samosas after ruling that the popular snacks are too ‘Western’.

The Al-Shabaab group last week used vehicles mounted with loudspeakers to announce the b

Somali police said on Saturday that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, one of Africa’s most wanted al Qaeda operatives, was killed in the capital of the Horn of Africa country on Tuesday. —Reuters

Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed insists that he needs one more year to rid the country of an Al Qaeda affiliated Islamic insurgency and establish a stable government in war-torn Somalia.

Somalia’s Prime Minister resigned on Tuesday to prevent what he called political turmoil amid an impasse with the country's President.