In the early 1990s, the Somali Civil War tore the country apart and brought starvation to millions of people. Dozens of ...

Islamic militias that recently took control of the Somali capital Mogadishu after nearly a decade of warlord rule are drawing widespread support among Somali citizens for their efforts to ...

CareFlite CEO Jason Schawebach will share his military MedEvac experiences that included participating in the Black Hawk Down ...

Somalia has been unstable now for decades. For many Americans, the movies “Black Hawk Down” and “Captain Phillips” are their only knowledge of the country. The battle in Mogadishu took ...

Black Hawk Down has been branded as "one of the greatest films ever made" and "one of the greatest war films ever made" as it gets a near-perfect rating on Rotten Tomatoes ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - In what could raise concerns about the security of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the Al-Shabaab militants reportedly targeted his convoy in the outskirts of Mogadishu, the ...

Some State Department officials have proposed closing the embassy in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, as a precaution after ...

US soldiers on a mission in the Somali capital of Mogadishu find themselves under intense fire from heavily armed local militia. When one of the US Black Hawk helicopters flying in support is shot ...