In the wake of Somalia's announcement this week that it is severing diplomatic ties with Kenya, the government says it will not expel Somali diplomats...
The U.N. refugee agency says it has evacuated 149 refugees and asylum-seekers from the strife-torn Libyan capital of Tripoli and brought them to safet...
The U.S. military confirmed Monday that it carried out an airstrike that killed the deputy leader of Islamic State militants in Somalia. U.S. Afric...
The Somali government is banning four types of Antonov airplanes from flying in Somali airspace, citing safety reasons. The Somali Civil Aviation A...
The Somali military has executed six al-Shabab militants without a trial, according to officials and rights activists. "The men have been in prison...
Somalia businessmen and analysts say the rival Islamist groups are targeting companies to an unprecedented degree with demands for so-called taxes. ...
Al-Shabab attacks against African Union peacekeepers and Somali government forces could worsen as troops try to reopen Somalia’s main supply roads, ...
It was an emotional moment for the nearly dozen Somali migrants who were repatriated to Mogadishu from Libya on Saturday. Some fell to their knees,...
Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf has become the first Somali to lead the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands. "I am humbled by this...
A U.S.-backed operation by Somali special forces has freed 32 children who were kidnapped by militant group Al-Shabab. Somali Information Minister ...
A new report says Somalia's Al-Shabaab militants are forcing rural communities to hand over children as young as 8 years old for indoctrination and mi...
The government of Ethiopia says it will close all 27 refugee camps in its territory over the next 10 years and integrate residents into local communit...
In Somalia, a country long troubled by deadly violence, there's a disturbing new trend: an increase in summary executions. Somali military courts a...
Somalia's U.S. ambassador says his embassy has learned that U.S. immigration agents are planning to deport about 4,000 Somali nationals now living in ...
Officials in Somalia and breakaway Somaliland took bribes in exchange for authorizing a United Arab Emirates military base in the port city of Berbera...
Election observers in Somalia say corruption is running rampant ahead of Wednesday's presidential election, with candidates giving gifts and large sum...
The U.S. military will investigate conflicting reports on Wednesday’s deadly U.S. airstrike in Somalia, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said. ...
Al Shabaab militants have captured a key Somali town near with the border with Kenya, according to witnesses. Residents in El Wak told VOA's Somali...
Al-Shabab militants in Somalia say they have executed two of their members, both of them recruited from Kenya, for disloyalty and anti-Islamic activit...
A jury in Minnesota has found three Somali-Americans guilty on all charges of conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State militant gro...