NAIROBI, KENYA - Authorities in Somalia’s Puntland region this week banned the illegal entry of foreigners and ordered ...

For almost a month, security forces in the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland have ... a strategic location about 150 kilometers southeast of Bosaso. Puntland’s leader, Said Abdullahi ...

Nearly 70 people were killed and up to 50 others wounded during 24 hours of fighting between Islamic State fighters and security forces from Somalia ... to the streets of Bosaso, the commercial ...

BOSASO, Somalia - The US Africa Command conducted rare airstrikes against ISIS in Puntland, perhaps the second time the team is targeting the Islamic State militants in the Horn of Africa, leading to ...

To be sure, there are threats in northern Somalia, where the Islamic State operates. In May, the military carried out an airstrike against ISIS fighters in a remote area southeast of Bosaso ...

Puntland forces in Somalia have taken large swathes of territory from Islamic ... They took refuge in nearby villages and the port city of Bosaso. Saido Abdirahman, who had just returned to Balidhidin ...

Puntland officials say bases captured, militants killed Importance of IS Somali branch grew in recent ... in nearby villages and the port city of Bosaso. "There was a lot of fear.

Bosaso, Somalia — A senior commander of the Islamic State's Somalia wing was captured on Monday, according to police and state media. The arrest comes just two days after U.S. airstrikes ...

BALIDHIDIN, Somalia (Reuters ... They took refuge in nearby villages and the port city of Bosaso. "There was a lot of fear. We were threatened," said Saido Abdirahman, who had just returned ...

Bosaso, PUNTLAND (GO) – Puntland security forces have successfully ... s mountainous terrain as a strategic base for their operations in the Horn of Africa. Somalia’s Federal Government Attempts to ...

Last May, the US killed at least three Islamic State Somalia militants in a drone strike in the Cal Miskaat Mountains south of Bosaso. In January 2023, the US killed senior Islamic State Somalia ...

A major source of IS-Somalia recruits are thought to be Ethiopian migrants, who gather in Puntland's port city of Bosaso in the hope of a sea crossing to a better life abroad. IS offers them ...