A month into its new guise as the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) senior commanders met their counterparts from the Somali National Army (SNA) to strategise joint ...

A European naval force in the Mideast helped free a Yemeni fishing boat seized by suspected Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa.

The United States military presence in Somalia may extend beyond initial plans, as the Pentagon shifts its focus to countering the growing threats posed by the Islamic State (ISIS) faction in Somalia ...

Ridley Scott’s Oscar-winning 2001 war film about the shooting down of two US military helicopters was inspired by the ...

US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth has made a decisive move, traveling to US Africa Command (Africom) headquarters at ...

Ridley Scott’s Oscar-winning 2001 war film about the shooting down of two US military helicopters was inspired by the ...

Security forces in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region said Wednesday they had killed scores of fighters linked to ISIS ...

Somalia stands at a dangerous crossroads, with its security architecture unravelling under the pressures of resurgent ...

Ridley Scott’s Oscar-winning 2002 movie Black Hawk Down famously portrayed the story of the Battle of Mogadishu, when Black ...

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US peacekeepers were killed by Somalia militiamen in flip-flops. What went wrong – and did it set a ‘dangerous precedent’?

Netflix's latest docuseries, Surviving Black Hawk Down, recounts the Bloody Battle of Mogadishu, which is a dark spot in Somali history.