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The Battle of Mogadishu on October 3–4, 1993, marked one of the most intense urban engagements involving U.S. forces since Vietnam. What began as a mission to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord ...

Days after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, Columbus-area military experts are weighing in on the reasons and ramifications of the escalating conflict — and cautioning that the road ahead is ...

“We’re going in.” When Black Hawk Super 64 was shot down during the Battle of Mogadishu, Master Sergeant Gary Gordon and Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart repeatedly requested permission to be ...

Throughout most of the past half century, the United States has struggled to establish boundaries in its foreign military engagements and avoid mission creep. Focus on original objectives tends to ...

Lieutenant General Odowaa Yusuf Rage, Chief of the Somali Armed Forces, acknowledged before parliament last November that ...

AUSSOM Force Commander Sam Kavuma, who spoke during a field visit to assess the combat readiness of frontline troops following the successful liberation of the strategic towns of Mubarak and ...

Edna Adan Ismail, 88, says she was working on forging diplomatic relations with Jerusalem as foreign minister two decades ago ...

In a new development in the security crisis, Somalia’s President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has issued a general amnesty for fighters of Al-Shabaab, calling on them to surrender and reintegrate ...

Qaeda? The Iranian regime's seemingly unlikely partnership with the jihadist group has been largely unremarked upon in the ...

Israeli President Herzog is in Addis Ababa days after high-level delegations from Turkiye and Saudi Arabia also visited.

Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab has staged several attacks in Kenya, prompting the border to be closed.