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In its first known airstrike under President Trump’s second term, the U.S. targeted a senior ISIS planner in Somalia's remote ...
An American raid on Friday saw U.S. troops capture Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf, the chief money man for ISIS in Somalia since 2019 ...
Mohamed Abdirahman Dhabancad, Puntland's former finance minister, explained to us: "Our intel people found there has been ...
American airstrikes over the course of eight days helped Somalia’s military retake an important town from militants.
A security expert told the Mirror the extremist group’s resurgence in the Sahel - spanning Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger - and ...
The Islamic State in Somalia is an affiliate of the transnational jihadist group Islamic State, known in short as ISIS. Based in the semi-autonomous northern Somalia territory of Puntland, the ...
After months of asymmetric escalation between Israel, Iran, and the United States, the Middle Eastern theater is taking shape as a new architecture of controlled chaos.
It’s true that what the U.S. has been trying for decades has yielded very limited returns. But it is equally true that ...
A United States military airstrike in Somalia targeted the top Islamic State leader in late May, but it remains unclear if the leader was killed in the airstrike, according to U.S. officials ...
U.S. forces killed what officials described as a senior ISIS leader in a helicopter raid in a remote area of Somalia on Thursday.Roughly 10 ISIS operatives were killed, including Bilal al Sudani ...
AFRICOM carried out 55 airstrikes in 2019 against against al-Shabab and ISIS-Somalia militants, compared to 47 such strikes in 2018, according to data provided by AFRICOM.
Since April, AFRICOM has launched about eight airstrikes against ISIS-Somalia, killing roughly 20 militants, including the group’s second-in-command. But while some past estimates by security ...