The Al Qaeda affiliate threatens to take Mogadishu 15 years after being expelled. In Somalia, there is a more reliable indicator than any intelligence report, a data point that shows the levels of ...

Somali Airlines was originally founded in 1964, with the help of the former Italian flag carrier Alitalia, having closer ties ...

Al-Shabab rebels have seized the central Somali town of Mahaas after an assault involving explosions and a ground offensive.

The Economist's July 24, 2025, article--painting Somalia's state-building as faltering and warning Mogadishu could fall to al ...

Mogadishu's designation as the World's Most Dangerous City was unofficial, of course, but widely applied. The U.N. and embassies pulled out in the 1990s, following the collapse of the last fully ...

Business activity is gradually returning to Mogadishu as the capital of war-ravaged Somalia tries to recover after more than 20 years of conflict. Pictured, construction workers in November 2012.

Somalia’s capital Mogadishu now has its first-ever ATM bank machine – and it dispenses U.S. dollars. The machine was installed in late September in the upscale Jazeera Palace Hotel, which is ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — There are so many ways to die in Mogadishu. You can walk, as an old lady here recently did, into the path of a roadside bomb planted by Islamic rebels.

Workers in Somalia's capital Mogadishu are still searching through the wreckage created by large truck bomb set off in a busy commercial district that killed 358 people and injuring hundreds more ...

Mogadishu, the capital war-torn city of Somalia, is losing a label it never wanted in the first place: The World's Most Dangerous City.