MOGADISHU, Somalia — Puntland forces on Tuesday announced that a high-ranking member of the Islamic State (IS) faction in the ...

A senior ISIL (ISIS) commander in Somalia has been captured, police and state media have said, as security forces continue a ...

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 ...

The Government of Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region has confirmed on February 2 that recent US military strikes in ...

In May 2024, the US Africa Command launched an airstrike within the Puntland mountains, which is said to have targeted ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Puntland security forces, backed by international allies, carried out an air and ground operation against the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Iskushuban, a town in the Bari ...

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Puntland, a regional member state, feels isolated in dealing with the group, despite the threat it poses to all of Somalia, due to a political rift with the federal government. However, Puntland has ...

The powerful GERB party won 69 seats in the 240-seat legislature at Bulgaria’s election in October, the country’s seventh in four years due to its yearslong political deadlock. Zhelyazkov was ...

However, HTS didn’t recognize independent political parties in Idlib, and stifled dissent, curtailing and hindering the activities of journalists and critics. The group also maintained tight control ...

The Islamic State (IS) Somalia was reportedly formed in 2015 by a ... Despite these challenges, the Puntland leadership has shown significant political will to combat ISIS and Al-Shabaab militants in ...

Somalia's then-Environment Minister Aden Ibrahim Aw Hirsi told me at the time: "You are always going on about 'political bombshells' in your reporting. "People here are talking about a political ...