The United States military conducted an airstrike on April 11 in the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somalia, targeting ...

The US military has stepped up its airstrikes against ISIS in Somalia and launched an intensive bombing campaign against the ...

Founded with United Arab Emirates money and mentored by private South African military contractors to address growing piracy, it has turned to fighting al-Shabab and Islamic State in Somalia in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military has conducted airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Donald Trump's second term.

Members of the Puntland Counter-Terrorism Forces who have been fighting Islamic State fighters, killing several of them in the Calmiskaad mountains: (Photo: Puntland Counter-Terrorism Operations) ...

Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth wants the US military to be more lethal as he guts civilian casualty programmes. There’s a ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — The draft of a letter from ... against the al-Shabab extremist group and an affiliate of the Islamic State. The letter, dated March 16 and leaked on social media last ...

Kill them,” recounted Sebastian Gorka, America’s new counter-terrorism chief, of Donald Trump’s orders just ten days after ...

A revolution in unmanned systems is reshaping the dynamics of Africa’s armed conflicts. Professional militaries must balance ...

“We see the evidence of an [Somali] army in disarray and in retreat ... There is connective tissue between Islamic State-Somalia, al-Qaeda and al-Shabaab. Al-Shabaab and Houthi rebels ...

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