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 ...

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 ...