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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has condemned the latest attack on a health facility in a disputed city in Somalia's Somaliland region, where dozens of people were killed and injured, including healthcare workers and patients. The WHO said that Tuesday's fighting in Las...

WASHINGTON, United States -- A US military raid in Somalia ordered by President Joe Biden killed a key regional leader of the Islamic State group, Bilal al-Sudani, US officials said Thursday. Sudani was killed during a gunfight after US troops descended on a mountainous cave complex in northern...

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somalis anxiously waited to know the fate of their missing relatives on Sunday as emergency workers attempted to clear debris after a deadly 30-hour siege by Al-Shabaab jihadists at a hotel in the capital Mogadishu. People watch outside of destroyed Hayat Hotel after a deadly...

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somalia's newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud used his inauguration speech on Thursday to appeal for international help to stave off a famine that threatens his drought-stricken country. Aid agencies have warned of an approaching famine as cases of severe...

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- At least four security officers including their commander were killed in a roadside bomb blast on Sunday near a hospital in the west of the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials said. A security official, who declined to be named, told Xinhua by phone that al-Shabab militants...