MOGADISHU, Somalia — For the first time in three years, al-Shabab militants no longer rule Mogadishu. But the African Union troops stationed in the city are still nervous. On a desolate stretch ...

Somalia is an exception to the swinging pendulum of extremist power. The al Qaeda franchise al-Shabaab has attacked nearly every state institution, security installation and large hotel in ...

Taking over Mogadishu is not the problem, but securing it is the problem. You can take it over in a month, but you need man power to sustain the takeover. [email protected] ...

Our electricity is the cheapest in the country,” Ahmed Abdishakur Omar of Mogadishu Power Supply tells Al Jazeera. “Today, electricity is the cheapest it has been in the last two decades.

Somalia's defense ministry is investigating an explosion at a military training school in Mogadishu. The incident at the Jaalle Siyaad Military Academy has been claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked ...

Firefighters battled intense car fires after a deadly African Union military helicopter crash in Mogadishu. Thick black smoke ...

A bombing outside a café Sunday in the Somali capital of Mogadishu killed at least five people, police said.

Terrorist group al-Shabaab is expanding territory across Somalia and increasingly working with Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen to disrupt Red Sea trade, in a stunning revival of an ...

More than 50 million people in the wider East African region are expected to face acute food insecurity this year, a regional bloc said Friday, warning that some 300,000 in Somalia and South Sudan ...

It took Somali forces more than 30 hours to contain the fighters who had stormed Mogadishu's Hayat Hotel on Friday evening in an assault that started with loud explosions.

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali authorities on Sunday ended a deadly attack in which 21 people were killed and dozens more wounded when gunmen stormed a hotel in the capital.

NUSOJ urges Somali authorities at both federal and regional levels to act without delay and bring an end to the hostility ...