UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned that Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen could pave the way for Takfiri militants through Somalia.

Al-Shabab militants are holding 14 crew members of an Iranian fishing boat they seized off the coast of Somalia, two Iranian officials say.

Newly appointed US ambassador to Somalia Katherine Dhanaani has withdrawn her nomination, citing personal reasons.

The European Union (EU) has announced the opening of an EU Delegation office to Somalia.

Al-Shabab militant group has claimed responsibility for the assassination of a parliament member of Somalia’s northeastern semi-autonomous region of Puntland.

John Kerry made a surprise trip to Somalia on Tuesday, officials said, becoming the first US secretary of state to visit the war-ravaged Horn of Africa nation.

Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud now wants the federal government of Somali to set up an all-inclusive national army and control the government arms falling into the wrong hand.

At least six UN workers have been killed in a car bomb explosion in Somalia’s northeastern semi-autonomous region of Puntland.

The federal republic of Somalia has reacted to the ongoing xenophobic attacks and viciously condemned the targeted attacks by South Africans on their fellow Africans, an attack similarly condemned by the Ethiopian prime minister.

At least nine people have been killed in an attack by the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab militants against a government office complex in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

The death toll from an Al-Shabab attack on Somalia's higher education ministry has risen to 17 people, officials said Tuesday, in the latest deadly attack against Somali government institutions.

Somali press freedom advocates lashed out at Somalia government officials on Saturday after news 25 staff members at two radio stations were arrested over their coverage of the Garissa, Kenya, massacre on Thursday.

Somalia-based al-Shabab militants have threatened Kenyan citizens with “another bloodbath” just two days after their armed men slaughtered nearly 150 people at a university in the eastern part of the country.

A siege on a hotel frequented by government officials in Somalia’s capital city of Mogadishu has ended with the attack leaving at least 17 people dead.

The United States has removed a former senior leader of Somalia’s al-Shabab militant group from its terror list, the Somali government says.

A mortar attack on the Somali presidential palace in the capital, Mogadishu, has claimed the life of a security guard.

Al-Shabab militants assassinA Somali lawmaker has been killed by al-Shabab militants in the capital Mogadishu as assassinations of politicians in the east African country continue.ate Somali legislator

Several people have been reported killed in an airstrike apparently targeting a residential home in southern Somalia occupied by al-Shabab militants.

A senior member of al-Shabab militant group in Somalia has confirmed his defection from the terrorist group, urging an end to the deadly clashes in the violence-wracked African country.

Somali university students have poured into the streets in the capital, Mogadishu, to join global Muslim rallies against a sacrilegious cartoon published by French weekly Charlie Hebdo depicting the Prophet Mohammad.