The United States conducted an air strike in southern Somalia, killing 10 members of the Al-Shabaab jihadist group, US military authorities said Tuesday.

The UN Security Council on Friday gave the green light to a new African Union force in Somalia that is meant to take on the Islamist armed group Al-Shabaab, with the soldiers due to deploy in January.

The ousting of Mohamed Siad Barre as Somalia’s president in 1991 sparked a decades-long civil war between rival clan warlords. Over the years, the UN and African Union (AU) have played key roles ...

Expressing a renewed desire to return to their homeland, some Syrian refugees residing Somalia's capital ... Since the Syrian civil war broke out more than a decade ago, Syrians have fled to ...

Scenes from the Somalia You Don’t See on the News beyond ... conjuring up clichés of the worst of Africa. Famine, civil war, Kalashnikovs, despots… We hear the word Mogadishu and immediately ...