Somalia has begun work on a 50,000-unit residential project in the coastal Kaaraan district in the north of Mogadishu.

Mar. 12 – A Somali journalist survived an assassination attempt after an IED fitted to his car exploded ... Caleb Weiss is an editor of FDD's Long War Journal and a senior analyst at the Bridgeway ...

After joining, I served around the globe ... 1980s were now adults and were extremely comfortable with war. During my time in Mogadishu, I have a lot of memories, both good and bad.

The returned Somali fighters established a Salafi militant organization al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI) during this time. Shortly after, Somalia descended into civil war, culminating in the collapse ...

Keep in mind that Shabaab’s predecessor, the Islamic Courts Union, pulled out of Mogadishu in late 2006 after the Ethiopian invasion ... for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Seven people died and six others were injured after a suicide bomber detonated an unidentified device ...

During the Battle of Mogadishu, 17 U.S. Army soldiers were killed and 73 injured. It was the deadliest battle since the Vietnam War and its events are recounted in the 2001 movie “Black Hawk ...

Celebrated actress Wanjiku Mburu passionately asked President William Ruto to help free her abducted brotherWanjiku said her ...

The 58,000-plus names etched on the Vietnam War Memorial wall were all losers and suckers. The five Army Rangers whose bodies were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu after their Blackhawk ...

The mayor of Somalia's capital Mogadishu has died a week after being wounded in a suicide ... Mr Osman, who fled to the UK during the civil war in the 1990s, became a councillor in London before ...

The government offensive against al-Shabab was announced shortly after the group’s attack ... As the joint Somali army and ...