At least seven soldiers were killed when fighters of the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab stormed a jail in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland early on Friday, police and the group said. Al Shabaab said it had freed at least 400 prisoners, many of them its members, in its assault ...
The US Department of War announced in a statement on Friday that US President Donald Trump had ordered the Pentagon and United States Africa Command to “reposition the majority of personnel and assets out of Somalia by early 2021”. Around 700 US military personnel are presently stationed in Somalia to ...