In a desolate makeshift camp on the fringes of Somalia’s capital, tens of thousands of internally displaced people sit under ...

The Post ventured to the front lines of an offensive against the Islamic State in northern Somalia, where foreign fighters ...

Rep. Brandon Gill urged his supporters to back the petition in a recent fundraising email after footage emerged last week of ...

The Washington Post reported this week the Islamic State terror group “has regrouped in Somalia — and has global ambitions.” ...

The Islamic State armed group attacked military bases in Somalia's northeastern Puntland state overnight with suicide car and motorbike bombs, but government forces repelled the assault and airstrikes ...

Large, Abdirashid A. Sed, said the Ankara Declaration sets a powerful example for neighboring nations to resolve conflicts, enhance cooperation, and work collectively toward a more unified and ...

BALIDHIDIN, Somalia - The dead Islamic State fighter was sprawled out on the ridge, blood stains darkening in the sun, as a line of heavily armed Somali soldiers snaked down the mountainside to a ...

By Eric Schmitt Reporting from Washington President Trump ordered airstrikes on Saturday against the Islamic State in northern Somalia, the first major U.S. military operation overseas since he ...

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud speaks during an interview in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Feb. 20. (Feisal Omar/Reuters) The al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which operates in ...

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The government of Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region said Sunday that US military strikes in the Golis mountains had killed "key figures" in the Islamic State group. US President Donald ...

Finding and fighting the militants who have become the beating heart of the Islamic State (IS) group in Africa can be tough work as they hide deep in the mountains of north-eastern Somalia.