Last year, its fighters defeated al-Shabab after more than a year of bloody battle, vastly expanding their territory in Puntland. The new ... Republic of Congo under al-Karrar, the Somali ...

Israeli and US officials are reportedly looking into Morocco as well as two autonomous regions of Somalia as potential destinations for relocating Gazans under US President Donald Trump’s ...

BOSASO, Somalia - Even with limited resources for the fight against ISIS militants, the Puntland frontline military leaders have vowed to press on until all territories occupied by the militants are ...

The Islamic State armed group attacked military bases in Somalia's northeastern Puntland state overnight with suicide car and motorbike bombs, a military official said on Tuesday. Puntland announced a ...

HARGEISA, Somalia - Police in the breakaway ... highlighting a huge gap in terms of security. In Puntland, the federal government is yet to deploy its support to supplement the regional troops. The ...

Somalia and Ethiopia signed an agreement that secured the participation of Ethiopian troops in the new African Union mission ...

Puntland rejected the federal representation of Somaliland, which refuses to acknowledge Somalia’s sovereignty and continues to pursue secessionist policies. In 2021, Somaliland forcibly displaced ...

For almost a month, security forces in the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland have been advancing on the mountainous hideouts of Islamic State militants. The fiercest clashes occurred late ...

Puntland hosts some 60-70,000 displaced persons Credit: Yannick Tylle/The Image Bank On Saturday, Donald Trump ordered the first military strikes of his new administration on one Puntland hide-out ...

The federal government of Somalia and the African Union have agreed on the number of troop-contributing countries for a new AU mission ... sea access deal with Somaliland on Jan. 1, 2024.