Al-Shabaab claims attack on elite hotel in Mogadishu
Security forces ended a deadly attack at a hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Tuesday after a seven-hour battle that left at least three civilians dead.
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FBI offers $5 million to find US citizen on Most Wanted Terrorist List
The State Department is offering $5 million for information that leads to the arrest of an American citizen on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist List.
Somalia floods displace 200,000 people, submerge homes
More than 200,000 people, half of them children, have fled their homes following massive floods that have left most of a town in central Somalia under water, Save the Children said.
Somali refugee just became director of Seattle clinic
Dr. Anisa Ibrahim was 5 years old when her life was uprooted by the grisly consequences of a gruesome civil war.
Migrants describe being tortured, raped on journey to Libya
A small blue boat with an outboard motor bobs on the waves of the open sea. It is crammed with 28 migrants -- men, women and children -- from Somalia, Bangladesh and Yemen. Across the horizon is the Libyan coast.
Book: Trump raged against refugees from Somalia in private meeting
In the first few months of his administration, President Donald Trump asked then-acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke why he could not ban refugees from "f*****g Somalia" in a bout of rage at his Bedminster golf club.
US airstrikes help repel attack on US base in Somalia
The U.S. military carried out two airstrikes and exchanged small arms fire with al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia after a base used by U.S. personnel was attacked by a vehicle-borne bomb Monday, U.S. Africa Command said in a statement to CNN.
US military base, Italian convoy attacked in Somalia
A US base and an Italian military convoy were targeted in separate attacks in Somalia on Monday.
3 killed in foiled Al-Shabaab attack on Somali military camp
Three people were killed in a foiled attack Wednesday against a newly established military camp near Mogadishu, Somali army officials said.
Mogadishu mayor dies of wounds following Al-Shabaab attack
Abdirahman Omar Osman, the mayor of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, succumbed to wounds sustained in a suicide bombing in the city, the government said on Thursday.
She moved to Somalia to tell positive stories but died in attack
"What a blessing to be back home in Somalia after 30+ years away," Hodan Nalayeh posted on her Instagram on May 1 this year, in what she described as "her first Ramadan back home."
Death toll in Somalia hotel attack rises to 26
At least 26 people were killed and a further 56 injured in Friday's terror attack at a hotel in Kismayo, Somalia, Jubaland state president Ahmed Madobe said Saturday morning.
US military targets ISIS-Somalia in fifth airstrike since April
The U.S. targeted ISIS fighters in Somalia for the fifth time since mid-April, killing two terrorists in an airstrike Wednesday, U.S. Africa Command said in a statement.
Accused of war crimes and torture, Uber and Lyft hired him
Where does an alleged war criminal accused of torture and directing mass executions look for work while living in the United States? For Yusuf Abdi Ali, there was an easy answer: Uber and Lyft.
US airstrike kills ISIS-Somalia's 'second in command'
The US military conducted an airstrike Sunday that killed Abdulhakim Dhuqub, a high ranking ISIS-Somalia official.
US conducts airstrike in Somalia
The US military conducted an airstrike in Somalia Tuesday that killed one Al-Shabaab militant, according to US Africa Command, which oversees military operations on the continent.
US military acknowledges civilian casualties in Somalia
The US military acknowledged Friday that a drone strike in Somalia last year caused civilian casualties, the first time the US military has acknowledged civilian deaths during its air campaign in Somalia.
Amnesty International accuses US of causing civilian deaths in Somalia
Amnesty International accused the US military on Tuesday of causing civilian casualties in a series of airstrikes in Somalia in 2017 and 2018, claims the US military denies.
Muslims, Jews in Ilhan Omar's district are united in frustration
Rep. Ilhan Omar's controversial comments about Israel and Jews have driven a wedge through her Democratic Party in Congress.
US conducts airstrike in Somalia after troops come under attack
The US military conducted an airstrike in Somalia on Monday after a Somali-led force and its accompanying US military advisers were attacked by Al-Shabaab militants.
At least 30 dead in Somali car bombings
A nearly day-long standoff between Islamic militants and security forces in Somalia ended on Friday after three deadly car bomb explosions killed at least 30 people in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Thursday night, security sources said.
US says airstrike killed 35 Al Shabaab fighters in Somalia
The US military announced Monday that an airstrike in Somalia killed 35 Al Shabaab fighters on Sunday.
Car bomb explodes in Somalia, killing at least 10 people
A car bomb exploded at a crowded shopping mall in Mogadishu, the Somali capital on Monday morning, killing at least ten people and wounding dozens of others, police and witnesses said.
3 men sentenced in Kansas plot to kill Somali Muslims
Three men were sentenced Friday to at least 25 years in federal prison for attempting to blow up an apartment complex in western Kansas where Somali Muslims lived, a plot that unnerved that refugee community.
