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

Piracy off the coast of Somalia declined after peaking in 2011, but resumed at a faster pace in the past year.

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

Puntland’s soldiers are now locked in a grinding fight, one with major international implications, but without much Western ...

Security forces in Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland announced Monday that a recent airstrike in the Bari region killed more than 13 foreign Daesh/ISIS fighters. The airstrikes ...

Puntland officials say bases captured, militants killed Importance of IS Somali branch grew in recent years US targeted group in air strikes last week BALIDHIDIN, Somalia, Feb 7 (Reuters ...

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

Abdirahman Shirwac Aw-Saciid, head of the group's assassination squad, surrendered to authorities on Monday in the Cal Miskaad mountains, in the northeastern Puntland state, Somalia's state news ...

Officials from Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region thank the US via social media, calling the operation a success ...

BOSASO, Somalia - The US Africa Command conducted rare airstrikes against ISIS in Puntland, perhaps the second time the team ... In Qandala, a small town within the Bari region, residents told VOA on ...

BALIDHIDIN, Somalia (Reuters) - Forces from Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region have captured swathes of territory from Islamic State during a weeks-long offensive they hope will draw ...