The Battle For The Soul Of Somalia Continues Somalia. The name has come to mean piracy, anarchy, failed state. For 20 years, the African nation has endured famine, civil war and vicious power battles.

The Somali pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian ship with 33 battle tanks aboard have lowered their ransom demand and say they are ... the historic 2005 deal that ended Sudan’s 21-year civil war.

In the aftermath of the deadliest day for U.S. forces in Somalia, President Clinton Monday ordered more than 400 additional Army troops along with powerful AC-130 gunships, heavy tanks and armored … ...

Between 2007 and 2020, the United States spent at least $2.5 billion on counterterrorism operations in Somalia, according to Costs of War, a 2023 Brown University study.

Ethiopia has moved tanks and other reinforcements into the battle zone for a third day of fighting against Islamist forces in southern Somalia, witnesses say. Islamists have vowed an all-out war ...

On Oct. 3, 1993, the two-day Battle of Mogadishu began during the Somali Civil War, killing 19 Americans and between 200 and 300 Somalis.

In the late 1980s civil war was raging between the legitimate Somali government and multiple political paramilitary organizations throughout the nation. The government was ultimately overthrown in ...

In 1993, Mogadishu, Somalia was caught in the violent political conflict of the Somali Civil War. Over 400 U.S. service member operators had commenced the mission, ‘Operation Gothic Serpent ...