File Photo/Somali Times By Michael Horton Trump’s instincts to withdraw them from the country were right. Now the Pentagon seems to be reverting back to old, failed strategies. At the beginning of this year, President Trump ordered roughly 800 U.S. soldiers to withdraw from Somalia as part of a larger effort by his administration to

Photo/Somali Times By Scott Horton Freedom Works This essay is adapted from Antiwar.com editorial director Scott Horton’s new book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism. The name “Somalia” has somehow become a slur against Americans who prioritize political liberty. “Oh, you think freedom works, huh? Well, why don’t you just move to

File Photo/Somali Times/ Somalia seizes fishing vessel of Qandala coast. BY DAVID KLEIN Once the most pirate-infested region on the planet, the waters off the coast of Somalia are now home to a different maritime crime – illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, according to a new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized

File – In this Feb. 7, 2020, file photo, Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise speaks during an interview at his home in Petion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Sources say Moise was assassinated at home, first lady hospitalized amid political instability. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File) By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Haitian President Jovenel Moïse

Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman arrives at a meeting at the Pentagon in Washington, U.S., August 29, 2019. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan/File Photo Saudi Arabia’s deputy defense minister on Tuesday became the highest-ranking Saudi envoy to visit Washington since Joe Biden became president in January, and held talks with senior officials on

Priti Patel described the bill as ‘the biggest overhaul of the UK’s asylum system in decades’. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA By Jamie Grierson Bill would give home secretary power to take action against citizens of countries deemed not to be cooperating The UK will block visas for visitors from countries the home secretary believes are refusing

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said the country will shut down several embassies, including one in Kenya, to manage costs, with most diplomats working as non-resident ambassadors. Ethiopia on Monday announced plans to cut the number of embassies it has in other countries by at least half in a bid to save costs. In a briefing

Photo: Credit Twitter The United Arab Emirates has spoken at a meeting in Mogadishu between its ambassador to Somalia Mohamed Ahmed Al-Osmani and former Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud. A statement from the UAE embassy in Mogadishu said that the former president shared with the ambassador Mohamed Ahmed Al-Osmani the UAE’s contribution to the reconstruction

In this photo released by the Joint Task Force – Sulu, rescuers search for bodies from the site where a Philippine military C-130 plane crashed in Patikul town, Jolo province, southern Philippines on Sunday, July 4, 2021. The Philippine air force C-130 aircraft carrying troops crashed in a southern province after missing the runway Sunday,

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (C) and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (R), are seen in a car during the inauguration of the new “July 3” naval base, in Marsa Matruh Egypt, July 3, 2021 in this handout picture courtesy of the Egyptian Presidency. The Egyptian Presidency/Handout via REUTERS By Aidan