The Latest Breaking News from Somalia

The head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Program says support from donors like the United States and Germany have allowed it to postpone — though not entirely avert — famine in Somalia

Extremist fighters from al Shabaab on Tuesday stormed a military base in a part of central Somalia they were forced from last year, killing at least seven soldiers, including the base commander, an officer said. Assailants from the al-Qaeda affiliate rammed the base in the village of Hawadley with a…

Somalia President Mohamud urges citizens to help flush out members of the group he describes as ‘bedbugs’.

Washington says armed conflict and humanitarian crisis in Somalia make it impossible for citizens to return safely.

Four workers from Kenya's highways agency were killed in an ambush by suspected Islamist militants on Wednesday near the country's eastern border with Somalia, police said.

The Saudi Foreign Ministry strongly condemned on Friday the terrorist attacks that targeted civilians in Somalia over the past two days, reported the Saudi Press Agency. It stressed that the Kingdom stands by Somalia and its people against all forms of violence and terrorism, reiterating its complete rejection of all…

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud stressed that the bilateral and multilateral cooperation with Ethiopia will continue, saying Ethiopia is a "strong strategic partner" in the Horn of Africa. Sheikh Mahmoud met outgoing Ethiopian ambassador Abdulfatah Abdullahi Hassan on Thursday, emphasizing that Ethiopia played an essential role in bringing peace and…

Islamist militants from al Shabaab killed at least six people on Friday while raiding a village in central Somalia that they were pushed out of last week, a government-allied militia said.

Nineteen people have been killed in two car bombings in central Somalia claimed by al-Shabaab militants, a local militia commander in the Hiran region said.