Somali minister tells Al Jazeera Israeli base plans in Somaliland risk dragging Somalia into ‘external confrontations’.

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Military operations cannot effectively end the Al-Shabaab menace in Somalia, a top European Union envoy has said, in the middle of sustained aggression against the militants, who ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is ending a military training programme in Somalia in response to the seizure of millions of dollars and the temporary holding of a UAE plane by Somali ...

Somalia has warned that its territory must not be used for foreign military operations after reports that Israel is considering establishing a military presence in Somaliland, a self-declared republic ...

Forces of the Somali National Army are working to secure the Xawaadley area in the Middle Shabelle region as part of a new military operation, named Operation Badar, targeting insurgent strongholds, t ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Mogadishu’s first line of defense against the next militant attack on Somalia ’s capital ranges from machine gunners in pick-up trucks to young men in plainclothes manning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Somali Defence Minister Ahmed Moallim Fiqi Ahmed speaks during a plenary session of the Xiangshan Forum in Beijing on September 19 ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Somali authorities are unlawfully detaining and at times prosecuting in military courts children with alleged ties to the Islamist armed group Al-Shabab, Human Rights Watch said in a ...

United States military forces carried out an airstrike Saturday against Islamist group Al-Shabaab, killing 52 militants, according to a statement from US Africa Command. "US Africa Command conducted ...

(Bloomberg) -- Somalia offered to renew a deal that allows the US to access its ports and airports for military purposes, countering a similar proposal by the breakaway region of Somaliland. “Somalia ...

At least eight Somali soldiers were killed when the Al-Shabaab jihadist group overran their military camp on the outskirts of the town of Kismayo early Saturday, military officials and local elders ...

Military officers in Somalia say at least five people were killed and 11 others wounded when a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the front gate of a military training camp in Mogadishu on ...