The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...

Ridley Scott’s Oscar-winning 2001 war film about the shooting down of two US military helicopters was inspired by the real-life Battle of Mogadishu. A new Netflix docuseries explores the true story be ...

Sahra Halgan has been singing for freedom for her whole life, both from the front during the Somali civil war in the 1980s to stages around the world.

Following his award-winning film "Black Hawk Down," Ridley Scott’s new Netflix docuseries revisits the Battle of Mogadishu with firsthand accounts from those who lived it. Here’s what happened.

Surviving Black Hawk Down tells the famous story of the Battle of Mogadishu, but it only scratches the surface of one of its ...

For decades, Washington has sought to prop up the government in Mogadishu, but Somalia remains a fractured state. Political ...

Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...

Surviving Black Hawk Down tells the true story of the Black Hawk Down Incident, and here are the 10 biggest takeaways from ...

I’ve always had a soft spot for Somaliland. While visits to Somalia, just next door, entailed armed escorts and bullet-proof ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalised during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during the post-Assad transition ...

The expression Black Hawk Down, the title of a Hollywood film, has become shorthand for a 1993 US military disaster in ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...