Somali federal government hails Baidoa's transition, urging peace and unity amid political changes and rising tensions.

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The United Nations and foreign powers claim they are dedicated to building up the Somali National Army. Instead, they have become complicit in its dysfunction. Last week, the U.N.

Somali federal troops Monday entered the key city of Baidoa after clashes with forces loyal to the head of the region, whose mandate Mogadishu says expired four years ago. The fighting broke out about ...

FILE PHOTO: A general view shows activity at a street in the southern city of Baidoa, Somalia November 3, 2018. Picture taken November 3, 2018. REUTERS/Feisal Omar/File Photo MOGADISHU, March 30 ...

Somalia's government forces have killed at least 22 Al-Shabaab fighters, including a senior commander, during a planned military operation in the Lower Shabelle region, the Ministry of Defence said on ...

An army base in southern Somalia was struck by car bombs and gunfire on Wednesday, a military official and witnesses said, in an attack claimed by the Al-Shabaab militant group. The attack in ...

Somalia's National Army bring 'total war' to al-Shabab militants. Mogadishu's first line of defense against the next militant attack on Somalia’s capital ranges from machine gunners in pick-up trucks ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The Somali national army [SNA] forces on Tuesday killed 11 al-Shabab extremists in an operation in the southern region of Gedo, a military official said. Ali Mohamed Hassan, ...

Twenty military officers from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and the Somali National Army (SNA) have concluded a four-day intelligence gathering training in Mogadishu, to enhance ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Rival forces in the Somali army shot at each other in the capital Mogadishu on Monday, with one group trying to storm a former United Arab Emirates-run training centre, soldiers ...