A passenger aircraft carrying 55 people veered off the runway at Somalia’s main airport and ended up on in shallow water at a nearby beach.

Somali security forces raided a hotel in the capital overnight, wounding two federal lawmakers and arresting a senior adviser to the Puntland president, amid escalating political tensions between ...

Generations of refugees in Aden endure poverty, lack identity, and cling to fading memories of Somalia’s distant shores.

A dispute over the electoral system and donor fatigue could unravel a decades-old state-building project, writes Omar S Mahmood.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A billboard displays an image of Aidarous al-Zubaidi, the leader of Yemen's Southern Transitional Council (STC), who, according to ...

Lawmakers from Somalia's Puntland who were recently prevented from traveling to their regional capital have now been allowed to return to their constituencies, one of the legislators confirmed on ...

Somali police late Wednesday confirmed the arrest at a hotel in Mogadishu of a senior advisor to the President of semi autonomous state of Puntland. The arrest comes after Puntland President Said Abdu ...

The Battle of Mogadishu on October 3–4, 1993, marked one of the most intense urban engagements involving U.S. forces since ...

A mother and her son play in the sea at Liido Beach in Mogadishu, Somalia. Despite decades of conflict and ongoing security threats, some Somalis are carving out a middle-class lifestyle in the Somali ...

Mogadishu’s last secular warlord has surrendered to powerful Islamists after losing most of his territory following two days of heavy fighting in which more than 60 people have died, militia sources ...

At the end of the movie “Black Hawk Down,” Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant (played by actor Ron Eldard) is sitting in a dark room as a prisoner of the Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid, as a ...