The ISIL militants remain much smaller in number compared to Al-Shabaab, which controls large parts of Somalia. The group’s fighters are estimated to be 1,500, mostly scattered in the Al-Maskad region ...

The Cal Miskaad mountain range, long considered a strategic hideout for extremist groups, has become the epicentre of a ...

For decades, Washington has sought to prop up the government in Mogadishu, but Somalia remains a fractured state. Political ...