Somalia is facing its most severe crisis since the height of its civil war in the 1990s. Al-Shabaab has launched a ...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA — Clashes between Islamic fighters and Ethiopian-backed government soldiers heightened fears Wednesday that Somalia is inching toward a civil war that could drag in the entire ...

For years, Somalia’s heavily armed pirate gangs seemed content to rob and hijack on the high seas and not get sucked into the messy civil war on land. Now, that may be changing, and the pirates ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A stadium in Somalia's violence-prone capital is hosting its first soccer tournament in three decades, drawing thousands of people to a facility that had been abandoned for ...

A few days ago, an American air strike killed Aden Hashi Ayro, the military commander of Al Shebab, a militant Somali organization. For any number of reasons, the world is better off without Mr ...

The “Black Hawk Down” episode and the piracy depicted in the film “Captain Phillips” continue to shape the American image of Somalia. For years, such perceptions have been unfair. Between ...

Civil war turned Somalia's main soccer stadium into an army camp. Now it's hosting games again A stadium in Somalia’s violence-prone capital is hosting its first soccer tournament in three ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A stadium in Somalia's violence-prone capital is hosting its first soccer tournament in three decades, drawing thousands of people to a facility that had been abandoned ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A stadium in Somalia’s violence-prone capital is hosting its first soccer tournament in three decades, drawing thousands of people to a facility that had been ...