A combination of images depicts what the U.S. military says are bases of the Kataib Hezbollah militia group that were struck by U.S. forces, in the city of Al-Qa’im, Iraq December 29, 2019 is seen in this handout picture provided by the U.S. Department of Defense. U.S. Department of Defense/Handout via REUTERS A top Iraqi

Photo/Somali Times Somali government has revealed 25 people are still missing following a deadly truck bombing in the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu. The latest report Villa Somalia Monday morning the number of those missing following the Ex-Control truck bombing stands. According to official government figures from hospitals Sunday, 137 people were admitted to various

American military says four ‘terrorists’ killed in operation carried out in coordination with Somali government. The US military has said it carried out airstrikes in Somalia that killed four “terrorists” of the al-Shabaab militant group following the deaths of at least 79 people in a car bombing in Mogadishu. “In coordination with the federal government

Photo/ Somali Times The huge resources deployed to prop up Somalia’s central government are not being used where they are most needed in the fight against al Shabaab, says Horn of Africa expert Matthew Bryden, a day after Somalia’s deadliest attack in two years. A massive car bomb exploded in a busy area of Mogadishu

An onlooker stands outside a rabbi’s residence in Monsey, N.Y., Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, following a stabbing Saturday night during a Hanukkah celebration. (AP Photo/Julius Constantine Motal) A man stabbed and wounded five people as they gathered at a rabbi’s home north of New York City to celebrate Hanukkah, in an attack that the governor

At least 90 people were killed when a bomb-laden truck exploded at a busy checkpoint in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, an international organization working in the country said, in the deadliest attack in more than two years. The dead included many students and two Turkish nationals, Somalia’s foreign minister said, adding that dozens

Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu, Members of the Somali Federal Parliament held a regular meeting on Saturday at Villa Hargeisa in Mogadishu. The agenda for today’s session is the third reading of the National Electoral Law, which was debated by MPs in recent days. Today’s hottest debate has been passed by MPs on the electoral law, which

Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu, Over 73 people has so far been confirmed dead and close to 120 others injured as the death toll in the Ex-Control truck bombing rises. Medina Hospital confirmed it has received 73 bodies from the scene of the bombing which rocked Ex- Control area in the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu Saturday

Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu, At least 73 people have been killed and more than 120 others injured in a suicide car bomb attack in Mogadishu. The hospitals in Mogadishu have been hit with a variety of injuries and many dead bodies remain unaccounted for, and busiest hospitals in the city are filled with missing people. The

Ethiopia on Friday charged the former head of the state electricity company and the former deputy head of military-run industrial conglomerate METEC with corruption in relation to the giant hydroelectric dam the country is building. Azeb Asnake and Mulu Woldegebriel were charged in relation to a 5.1 billion Ethiopian birr (about $159 million) contract awarded