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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.

On Saturday, Trump ramped up America’s longest-running war, carrying out a strike in Somalia that killed an unspecified number of people. “These killers, who we found hiding in caves ...

Forces from Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region have captured swathes of territory from Islamic State during a ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A decade later, Kenya’s mission in Somalia trudges on. Yet, even as the Kenya Defence ...

In 1960, both sides became independent and became the Somali Republic. Then the civil war occurred in 1991, and Somaliland seceded in that year from Somalia. Although Somaliland has functioned as ...

The United States military is currently engaged in a clandestine war in the African nation of Somalia. American special operations forces are working with government forces from Somalia ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - For the first time since the war against ISIS militants kicked off in Puntland, Somalia’s shaky cabinet acknowledged the gains made by the northeastern Federal State forces, ...

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 U.S. bombed Islamic State targets in Somalia on Saturday, President Trump said, marking the first major American ...