The expression Black Hawk Down, the title of a Hollywood film, has become shorthand for a 1993 US military disaster in ...

Somali authorities announced on Wednesday that counter-terrorism forces carried out a military operation that resulted in 40 ISIS members' deaths and the wounding of others in Puntland State in ...

Garowe, Somalia — The security forces of the Puntland Government have seized a boat carrying military supplies, including uniforms and other military equipment after the vessel was intercepted ...

A new Netflix docuseries reveals the true story behind 2002's Black Hawk Down — told by those who lived it. The 3-part ...

A senior commander of Islamic State's Somalia wing was captured on Monday, police and state media said, two days after the IS leadership was targeted with U.S. airstrikes and as security forces ...

In a statement, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the airstrikes were undertaken in coordination with the Federal ...

Somalia's Minister of Defense, Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur, hosted a meeting with James Swan, the Acting Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia, at the Ministry of Defense ...

In October 1993, the United States sent a task force into the Somali capital to capture two ... It became the deadliest day for the U.S. military since the Vietnam War, punctuated by the images ...

AP journalist Reid G. Miller speaks on a phone while sitting barefoot in the mud in a U.N. compound in November 1994, in ...

(AP Photo/Ben Curtis) This photo provided by U.S. Africa Command, the U.S. military conducts coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025.

I did!" The fact that Somalia was the target of America's first major military operation under the new administration surprised many in the country who feared the US was planning to abandon them.