How Somalis see the 'Black Hawk Down' battle three decades on
The expression Black Hawk Down, the title of a Hollywood film, has become shorthand for a 1993 US military disaster in ...
Kurds in the new Syria want to preserve the cultural rights they gained in years of war
Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...
Peoples Democracy3d
The Hyper-Imperialism of Donald J Trump
Within weeks, US President Donald J Trump authorised the firing of missiles at some caves in Somalia, where – he claimed – a military leader of ISIS (or the Islamic State) was hiding. No US president ...
Israel considers sending Gazans to Puntland – and Somalia could be open to it
Israel is considering plans to send Gazans to Puntland, an autonomous region of Somalia, after Donald Trump’s pledge to ...
Stars and Stripes4d
In Syria, the fighting is over, but a resource-rich province is left in limbo
That has irked Turkey, which supported the rebels now controlling Syria. Turkey considers the SDF to be an offshoot of the ...
Voice of America Editorials5d
ISIS Terrorists in Somalia Targeted and Destroyed
In a statement, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the airstrikes were undertaken in coordination with the Federal ...
The EastAfrican6d
Emerging threat of ISIS forces Somalia, US to old tools
The Igad Centre of Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (ICEPCVE) says it has observed a growing ...