The Somali region’s leaders vow to keep pressure on the IS hub, which is seen as a key spoke in the Islamic State network ...

Al-Shabaab is rapidly closing in on Mogadishu, threatening commercial and military shipping in the Gulf of Aden and Arabian ...

The US Africa Command carried out an airstrike in Puntland, Somalia, targeting IS-Somalia positions and killing several operatives. Coordinated with the Somali government, the strike occurred ...

Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland has rejected an attempt by the central government to give the US exclusive control ...

Several Islamic State group operatives were killed in an US airstrike on Puntland, in the latest US strikes on the region ...

A transitional parliament for Somalia -- the first since the Horn of Africa country dissolved into chaos in 1991 -- was formally inaugurated in the neighboring state of Djibouti on Sunday. Djibouti's ...

A milestone for the group followed its 2017 suicide bombing of the Juba Hotel in Bosaso, Puntland’s commercial capital and ...

BOSASO, Somalia - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) struct several bases controlled ... The ISIS militants, mostly foreigners, had established more permanent bases in Puntland state, with the ultimate ...

BOSASO, Somalia - A base believed to be the main headquarters of the ISIS militants in Somalia was seized by the Puntland security forces ... airstrikes from the US Africa Command and the United Arab ...

Somalia is prepared to offer the United States exclusive control of strategic air bases and ports, its president said in a ...

The official language is Somali, although Arabic is also widely spoken ... and Garowe Airport in Puntland. Somalia does not have a national airline, but several regional airlines operate flights ...

The United Arab Emirates has been providing ... "Indications [are] that the Puntland forces are making real progress against ISIS in Somalia's hideouts," a former senior Western counterterrorism ...