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 ...

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

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 ...

The strikes were carried out in north Somalia, where the Puntland Security Forces is carrying out operations against ISIL since December. The Puntland Security Forces holds its position after ...

Forces from Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region have captured swathes of territory from Islamic State during a ...

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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.

The US military has conducted coordinated airstrikes against the so-called Islamic State group operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Donald Trump’s ...