MOGADISHU, Somalia – Two airstrikes have reportedly taken out several ISIL bases in the Al-Maskad mountains of the Bari ...

Nearly 100 people were killed and up to 60 others wounded when members of the Islamic State terror group launched a deadly ...

Ahmed Maeleninine, an Omani-born leader of Islamic State, was killed in U.S. airstrikes against the terror group in Somalia ...

At least 100 people have been killed and up to 60 wounded by Islamic State (IS) militants on the Puntland military base in ...

The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) has released details about an operation carried out on February 1, 2025, in the mountains of the Bari region in Puntland, Somalia.The operation, which was ...

Security forces in Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland announced Monday that a recent airstrike in the Bari region ...

Security forces in Somalia’s northeastern semiautonomous state of Puntland said Tuesday that they killed more than 60 ISIS ...

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 ...

Finding and fighting the militants who have become the beating heart of the Islamic State (IS) group in Africa can be tough ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has conducted coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first ...

A Somali government statement issued in Mogadishu said the operation in the Bari region was “jointly coordinated by the Somali and American governments” and had targeted “senior ISIS leaders”.

A senior commander of Islamic State's Somalia wing was captured on Monday, police and state media said, two days after the IS leadership was targeted with U.S. airstrikes and as security forces ...