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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.
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.
Somalia’s state news agency reported on Tuesday that security forces had repelled attacks on military positions in the Hagaaro and Togo-Jecel areas of Puntland’s Cal Miskaad mountains.
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.
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.
(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 ...
Fighters aligned with the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) took control of a small town in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region Wednesday. The militants took over the port town of Qandala ...
A lifeline for Puntland The port of Bosaso is located on the Red Sea. Its development was tied to the beginning of the civil war in Somalia in the 1980s.