The Post ventured to the front lines of an offensive against the Islamic State in northern Somalia, where foreign fighters are flowing in and cash is flowing out.

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

As one of Somalia's rising social media influencers ... We operate from Cape Town, Dakar, Abuja, Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington DC.

U.S. warplanes took aim at the Islamic State affiliate in Somalia, hitting what officials described as high-ranking operatives in the terror group's mountainous stronghold.

The incident happened in Mandera county when the five village chiefs, government-appointed local officials, were heading to ...

BOSASO, Somalia - The US Africa Command conducted rare airstrikes ... and we believe that many of the militants were killed," said the general. In Qandala, a small town within the Bari region, ...

A strange sight appears on the streets of Mogadishu: a figure dressed all in black, including a cowboy hat, riding a horse through the beeping traffic of tuk-tuks and motorbikes. Stranger still in ...

Stranger still in conservative Somalia, the rider is a woman. Shukri Osman Muse said she is "delighted to be the first female equestrian in the country -- it was a dream of mine for many years".