The Galcayo Conference highlights the current challenges in Puntland’s governance, where restrictions on public gatherings ...

Somalia has formed a new state by annexing territory from self-governing regions in a move that could worsen already-tense relations in the Horn of Africa country.

Somalia’s SSC-Khatumo region is set to become the sixth federal state of Somalia from next month, allowing it to establish ...

Mutinous Puntland soldiers blocked the main road to Bosaso airport, protesting lack of medical care after being wounded in ...

Puntland security forces, as part of the anti-terror Operation Hilaa'ac targeting ISIS militants entrenched in the ...

A stand off as Somalia demands release of a cargo ship carrying military equipment that was seized by semi-autonomous Puntland. The ship was reportedly transporting military equipment to Turkey’s ...

The Economist's July 24, 2025, article--painting Somalia's state-building as faltering and warning Mogadishu could fall to al-Shabab--has sparked a firestorm online. On X, Somalis are calling it ...

The U.S. military has launched its most intensive Somalia bombing campaign on record, U.S. Africa Command strike data show.

Cyclical rivalries between the federal government, states and the political opposition have undermined the counter-terrorism strategy’s early successes.

“AFRICOM, alongside the Federal Government of Somalia and Somali Armed Forces, continues to take action to degrade ...

The United States launched a rare ground operation in northern Somalia that apprehended Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf, the finance emir for the Islamic State’s so-called Somali Province. The raid was the ...