Photo/Somali Times/Dead bodies of Al-Shabaab terrorists. The Somali National Army (SNA) has thwarted an ambush by Al-Shabaab militants in the Barire and Awdhegle areas of the Lower Shabelle region this morning. The Al-Shabaab terrorist group suffered heavy casualties in the attack and fled the battlefield with many dead and wounded militiamen. Officials from the Lower

File Photo/Somali Times The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo opened a preliminary meeting of the National Consultative Assembly on the Completion of Electoral Issues. The conference, which opened today, was attended by the Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia Mohamed Hussein Roble and the Heads of State and

The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz transits Strait of Hormuz on 18 September (AFP photo/US Navy) By Middle East Eye Patriot anti-missile batteries, an aircraft carrier and surveillance systems are being diverted from the Middle East, US officials say. The US has begun to reconfigure its military capabilities in the Gulf and removed at least three

U.S. Capitol Police officers stand near a car that crashed into a barrier on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 2, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) By MICHAEL BALSAMO, NOMAAN MERCHANT and COLLEEN LONG WASHINGTON (AP) — A Capitol Police officer was killed Friday after a man rammed a car into two officers at a

Police officers gather near a car that crashed into a barrier on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 2, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) By MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG WASHINGTON (AP) — A Capitol Police officer was killed Friday after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S.

Photo/Somali Times Acting Somali Minister of Finance Abdirahman Duale Beyle attended the annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank, which took place on a long-distance basis. The week-long conference was also attended by all Arab finance ministers, according to a statement from the opening of the conference. After the meeting, Beyle had a

Photo/Somali Times After recent efforts by representatives of the international community in Somalia, a preliminary meeting will be held tomorrow to discuss the issues surrounding the election of the leaders of the Federal Government of Somalia, regional governments and the Benadir region. Meanwhile, in a statement said from the Somali presidency last night that President

In this image made from a video released by hsnews.com.tw, passengers are helped to climb out of a derailed train in Hualien County in eastern Taiwan Friday, April 2, 2021. The train partially derailed along Taiwan’s east coast Friday, injuring an unknown number of passengers and causing potential fatalities. (hsnews.com.tw via AP) By RALPH JENNINGS

Photo/Somali Times Somali officials from the Somali Special Forces in Gorgor told Somali Times that hundreds of troops will be deployed in parts of the Mudug region in the coming days. The troops and their vehicles are scheduled to be deployed near Goldogob in the Mudug region. The areas where the troops will be deployed

Photo/Somali Times By Peter Kirechu Somalia’s federal government careened into deeper political crisis after its mandate expired on Feb. 8 without an agreement to hold long-delayed presidential and parliamentary elections. Days before his term expired, incumbent President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, commonly known as Farmajo, launched a failing effort to dislodge a months-long stand-off with federal