The Latest Breaking News from Somalia

Joint US-Somalia air strikes and combat killed dozens of Al-Shabaab jihadists attacking a key town and a military base and also destroyed a shipment of weapons, the Somali government said on Thursday.

The armed group claims to have seized control of Adan Yabaal town, but the Somali army disputes the battle outcome.

Somalia's Al-Shabaab jihadist militia shows signs of resurgence after making gains in strategic regions and coming close to assassinating the president with a roadside bomb last week.

The Islamic State in Somalia is an affiliate of the transnational jihadist group Islamic State, known in short as ISIS. Based in the semi-autonomous northern Somalia territory of Puntland, the terrorist group was the target of the first foreign combat operation of the Trump administration in February 2025. Previously, the…

The Trump administration and Israel have approached two African countries about the possibility of receiving displaced Gazans

Moves by US, UK and other donors to cut aid mean ‘high malnutrition rates, starvation and death’, say experts

US and Israel reportedly contacted officials in Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland

Officials from US and Israel say governments of Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland have been asked to take in people of Gaza.

Over the past week, Panama's government has released dozens of migrants from around the world who were deported from the U.S. The migrants fled conflict, religious persecution, poverty and government crackdowns in countries such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Cameroon, China, Pakistan and Iran