20120826
Press TV
One Somali government soldier has been killed and eight others have been wounded in an attack carried out by an armed man in the Hamar Weyne district of the Banaadir region of southeastern Somalia, Press TV reports.

20120821
AFP
Somalia swore in its new parliament in a historic ceremony policed by African Union troops, as the war-torn nation tries once more to end two decades of conflict.

20120821
AP
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia's chief justice on Monday swore in 215 new members of parliament, an accomplishment but one that fell far short of U.N. hopes that the Horn of Africa nation would seat a full 275-member parliament that would vote in a new president.

20120815
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — World leaders from Africa to the U.S. and Europe said they are growing increasingly concerned that intimidation and corruption are marring the selection of a new Somali parliament, a task still unfinished less than a week before the government's U.N. mandate expires.

20120815
AFP
he United Nations warned Tuesday of an impending assault on the southern Somali port of Kismayo, the largest remaining stronghold of the country's Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents.

20120815
AFP
Dutch sailors taking part in NATO's pirate-busting operation Ocean Shield helped rescue the crew of a Somali dhow hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, NATO said Tuesday.

20120814
AFP
Somalia's government must end a wave of assassinations that has struck the volatile capital Mogadishu as leaders jostle for power ahead of elections next week, the AU and UN warned Monday.

20120813
Press TV
Unidentified gunmen have killed well-known journalist Yusuf Ali Osman, known as Farey in southern Somalia, Press TV reports.

20120812
Press TV
At least three civilians have been killed and 15 others injured in the latest attack by a US assassination drone in Somalia.

20120812
Press TV
Two Somalia government soldiers have been killed and two others injured in a landmine explosion in Somalia’s capital city of Mogadishu, Press TV reports.

20120810
AFP
War-torn Somalia is setting up a stock market to raise cash for fledging businesses, as the Horn of Africa nation seeks to rebuild from over two decades of conflict, officials said Thursday.

20120807
AP
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Residents of Mogadishu are celebrating the one-year mark since Islamist militants were forced out of the capital.

20120805
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday she was encouraged by progress that Somali leaders have made in trying to re-establish a viable central government in the East African nation where an al-Qaida-linked insurgency group still partly rules.

20120802
AFP
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Security forces shot and killed two suicide bombers trying to infiltrate a meeting of 825 Somali elders debating the country's new constitution Wednesday, setting off their explosives in two thundering blasts, officials said.

20120731
Press TV
At least eight al-Shabab fighters have been killed in clashes with Somali government forces in the country’s southwestern region of Gedo, Press TV reports.

20120731
Press TV
A new report has unveiled that the US Army is “quietly equipping and training” thousands of African troops to prepare them for a war against al-Shabab fighters in Somalia.

20120730
Press TV
US assassination drone strikes have claimed the lives of at least 18 people and wounded 117 others in southern Somalia, Press TV reports.

20120729
Press TV
A massive bomb explosion has occurred near a former police academy where the Somalia’s 825-member National Constituent Assembly (NCA) was debating a new constitution for the African state, Press TV reports.

20120724
AFP
The head of Somalia's corruption-riddled government said Monday he expects to be re-selected as president of the war-torn Horn of Africa nation when his current mandate expires next month.

20120723
AP
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia's most powerful militant group says it publicly executed three of its members because they had spied on the militants for the U.S. and British intelligence agencies.