MOGADISHU, Somalia - Military operations cannot effectively end the Al-Shabaab menace in Somalia, a top European Union envoy has said, in the middle of sustained aggression against the militants, who ...

Somalia's Minister of Defence, Ahmed Moalim Fiqi, announced Sunday that national army forces have made significant territorial gains against Al-Shabaab militants in the southern Shabelle region, ...

Somali government forces have ended a six-hour siege by militants at a major prison near the president’s office in Mogadishu.

At least 13 Somali troops have died after the army attacked militant group al Shabaab in jungle and farms near the district of Afgoye northwest of the capital, Mogadishu, a military official said.

MOGADISHU, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Senior al-Shabaab Commander Ali Ahmed Gure was killed on Monday by Ma'awisley, a pro-government clan-based militia, following an operation in the Hiran region of central ...

As the world watches the Pakistan-Saudi defence pact take shape, another MoU involving Islamabad is stirring unease-this time ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia-Turkey is set to conclude the construction of a military base in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, in which Turkish military personnel will support Somali government troops, Garowe ...

When more than two dozen officers from the Somali National Armed Forces were awarded Chinese training scholarships this month, Beijing's ambassador to Somalia Wang Yu assured them and the rest of the ...

A new fleet of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy set sail from a military port in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, on Saturday to take over an escort mission from the previous fleet in ...

Somali military forces staved off heavily armed militants who attacked a high security prison in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Sunday in what appears to have been a jailbreak attempt, according to ...

A new fleet of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy set sail from a military port in Qingdao, east China's Shandong ...