Seven al-Qaida-linked militants on a suicide mission attacked the U.N. compound Wednesday with a truck bomb and then poured inside, killing at least 13 people before dying in the assault.

During the years when Mogadishu resembled one big battlefield, the U.N. and other aid workers trying to improve Somalia often lived in the comfortable, modern and largely safe capital of Kenya.

Eighteen people have been killed in gun battles between rival militias fighting for control of the Somali port city of Kismayo.

The European Union Naval Force says Somali pirates who took control of a cargo vessel with 14 Indian sailors on board fled after counter piracy ships from the EU and NATO responded.

UN has called for faster resolution of the Somali crisis to save Kenya, the country hosting thousands of refugees from the Horn of Africa nation, from various challenges, said a statement issued on Sunday.

A surveillance drone has crashed in the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somalia, according to Puntland Ports and Anti-piracy Minister Saeed Mohamed Rage.

An unmanned aerial vehicle reportedly belonging to the United States has crashed in the Lower Shabelle region in the south of Somalia.

Somali government said on Sunday that it was ill advised for the authorities in the northern breakaway region of Somaliland to issue ban on UN flights into the region and ground world body's aircraft at the local airports.

Nearly a dozen people have died and five others have been injured in a car bomb attack carried out in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, local officials say.

A most-wanted American jihadi in Somalia says a known assassin from the militant group al-Shabab has shot him in the neck.

A Somali radio station editor says unidentified gunmen have shot dead a journalist in Mogadishu, the fifth to be killed in the country his year.

Unknown gunmen have shot and killed a Somalia journalist in the capital Mogadishu in the latest of a string of fatal attacks targeting members of media in the country.

The United Nations Security Council has strongly condemned the terror attacks that killed 34 people in Somalia's capital city, Mogadishu.

As many as 34 people have been killed and many more injured after several blasts rocked Somalia's capital city, Mogadishu.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recognized Somalia’s new government after a 22-year break in relations with the war-torn country.

Unknown gunmen have shot and killed a female radio journalist in Somalia in the latest of a string of fatal attacks targeting members of media in the lawless Horn of Africa nation.

Somalia's militant group Al Shabaab retook the southern Somali town of Hudur following the withdrawal of allied Ethiopian and Somali government troops based in the area, residents said.

The Supreme court in Somalia on Sunday acquitted a journalist jailed after interviewing a woman who alleges she was raped by government security forces.

Two explosions have reportedly taken place in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi as the vote count continues following the country’s presidential and parliamentary elections.

At least two people have been killed and several wounded in two massive explosions that targeted a restaurant on the popular beachfront of Somalia's capital city, Mogadishu.