Somalia suffered from civil war for years and is basically ungovernable. Most of the nation is desert, and there is rarely rain. Seventy percent of the land is used for agriculture, which is ...

Somalia has been in trouble for a long time, long before the events depicted in the 2001 film “Black Hawk Down.” It descended into chaos and civil war in the early 1980s and by the mid-90s ...

The Dadaab refugee complex was established in 1991, when refugees fleeing the civil war in Somalia started to cross the border into Kenya. A second large influx occurred in 2011, when some 130,000 ...

Every American war movie fan ... battle raged across the city. One account even comes from a photographer who brought his video camera to document the fight from the Somali side.