Though each crisis is driven by different, home-grown causes, “the question of who controls the Red Sea and who will ...

The boatswain’s mate, who grew up in Egypt, was awarded for his gutsy role in responding to a pirate attack on a commercial ...

Somalia has been unstable now for decades ... The fall of Mogadishu would further threaten commercial and military shipping in the Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean from the shores of ...

Idil Abdullahi Goley’s journey seeking a better life in Europe started in Somalia with a $6,500 payment to local smugglers. It ended a month later with fellow migrants around her dying at sea ...

Africa’s most lethal terrorist organization is expected to gain strength in Somalia, raising the security threat through a Middle East choke point for commercial shipping, a new report cautions.

Terrorist group al-Shabaab is expanding territory across Somalia and increasingly working with Iran-backed Houthi militants ...

The Somalia-based militant group al-Shabab has attacked a strategic town that serves as a major base for government troops.

Turkey has long sought to extend its influence in Africa by mediating in conflicts and building military partnerships with ...

Some State Department officials have proposed closing the embassy in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, as a precaution after recent gains by Al Shabab militants. By Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt ...