Fierce fighting broke out early Friday in the Sabiid and Caanoole area of southern Somalia's Lower Shabelle region after Al-Shabaab militants launched a coordinated assault on military positions held ...

The standoff continues between the government of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland and the federal government of Somalia over a cargo ship loaded with Turkish weaponry that is being detained.

As Western countries curtail support, the fate of one the world’s oldest state-building projects hangs in the balance. Three ...

In a statement released on Thursday evening in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, Save the Children said cases of measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, cholera, and severe respiratory infections have ...

Kaaho Maslah, 27, a Dutch woman of Somali origin, survived a brutal attack by her husband in Mogadishu after she tried leaving him.Her husband struck her face, neck, and cheeks repeatedly with a heavy ...

Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region acknowledged it’s holding a vessel full of military equipment until it can work out ...

Capt. Bishar Ahmed confirmed to CNN that a major attack occurred at the hotel, which lies in a heavily protected zone in downtown Mogadishu, where the state house, ministries and a high-security ...

Somali forces have ended the siege at an upscale hotel in the country’s capital Mogadishu, police told CNN, following an attack from unidentified gunmen that left dozens dead.

A general view shows the scene of two car bomb explosions in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Oct. 29, 2022. Abukar Mohamed Muhudin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images ...

"And, yeah, I'm optimistic about the future of Somalia," he says. And he's not the only one at Mogadishu's Liido Beach to express optimism about a country that's often written off as a failed state.

Somali authorities have spent years working to restore the national stadium in Mogadishu, and on Dec. 29 Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre inaugurated the national soccer tournament.