FILE - Puntland security forces parade newly trained soldiers and equipment to combat Islamic State in Bosasso, Puntland region, Somalia, on Jan. 30, 2025.

Pirates from the Puntland region of Somalia were believed responsible for 35 incidents of piracy in the first quarter of 2010. Attacks by Somali pirates were ...

BOSSASO, Somalia -A boat with 92 would-be illegal immigrants trying to cross the Red Sea has docked at Bossaso seaport overnight on Friday, Garowe Online reports. Puntland marine officials say, the ...

The semi-autonomous Somalia region of Puntland has elected a new president.

Pro-Islamic State militants have seized their first big town in the Puntland region of Somalia, officials and residents told VOA. The militants moved into the Red Sea town of Qandala, 90 miles ...

Armed factions in Somalia’s Puntland agree ceasefire after clash Dozens of people had been killed after the Puntland Parliament voted to change the region’s voting system.

A senior ISIL (ISIS) commander in Somalia has been captured, police and state media have said, as security forces continue a weeks-long offensive against the group.

Soldiers walk in the area around Sinujiif, Somalia, November 15, 2013. Two men accused of being members of ISIS have reportedly been sentenced to death in Puntland. Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty ...

Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland seized a boat loaded with weapons from Yemen in Saturday's early hours, the regional maritime police chief said.

(Bloomberg) -- The oil-rich, semiautonomous region of Puntland said it will operate as a state that’s independent from Somalia until changes to the Somali constitution adopted on Saturday are ...

Somalia's northeastern Puntland region said Monday it had cut all relations with the central government in Mogadishu, raising the prospect of further fractures to the already war-torn nation.

Plans to amend Somalia's constitution have been rejected by Puntland, a semi-autonomous state in the northeast. The Horn of Africa nation is planning to return to universal suffrage from clan ...