Somali

US midterm polls: Somali refugee Ilhan Omar, Palestine Immigrant Rashida Tlaib become first Muslim women elected to Congress

Ilhan Omar won a House seat in the US midterms from Minneapolis, Minnesota, while Rashida Tlaib won unopposed from Michigan.

Mogadishu blasts: Death toll rises to 189; more than 200 injured in deadliest attack in Somalia

The death toll from the most powerful bomb blast witnessed in Somalia's capital rose to 189 with more than 200 injured, making it the deadliest single attack ever in the Horn of Africa nation, police and hospital sources said on Sunday

Facebook under scanner for not deleting brutal videos from traffickers and slave traders

Facebook is caught in yet another controversy as traffickers and slave traders are reportedly using the social media platform to broadcast brutal videos.

31-year-old Somali minister shot dead in car after being mistaken for Islamist militant: Two arrested

Somali security forces shot a minister for public works dead in his car in the capital Mogadishu on Wednesday after mistaking him for an Islamist militant, officials said.

Suicide truck bombing 'kills 16' in Somali capital Mogadishu

At least 16 people died on Sunday in a suicide truck bombing outside the busy sea port of the Somali capital Mogadishu, the director of the ambulance service said.

Ohio State University: Terrorism suspected in car-and-knife attack

A Somali-born Ohio State University student plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus and then got out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife Monday before he was shot to death by a police officer. Police said they were investigating whether it was a terrorist attack.

Somali Shebab militants attack bus in Kenya; two dead, six wounded

Two people were killed Monday during an attack by Somali Shebab fighters on a bus travelling to Mandera in northeast Kenya from the capital Nairobi, the interior ministry said.

Somali militants vow to welcome British peacekeepers 'with fire' | Reuters

MOGADISHU Somalia's militant Islamist group al Shabaab pledged on Tuesday to greet British troops "with fire" when they arrive to provide support to a peacekeeping force in the conflict-ravaged country. Last week Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to deploy up to 70 troops and experts to provide logistical, medical and engineering support to the African Union-led peacekeeping force in Somalia, which is struggling to emerge from two decades of chaos and is also battling the Islamist insurgency of the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab. Like other Western powers, Britain has long avoided the Horn of Africa country, which until recently was widely viewed as a failed state, but it has made some progress in restoring order and setting up a functioning government

Suicide car bomb kills seven in Somali capital: Police

The blast is the latest in a string of attacks in the dangerous capital, where Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents are fighting to topple the internationally backed government.

Rebels kill 4 in attack on Kenya police post

A Kenyan official says militants believed to be from the Somali extremist group al-Shabab have killed at least 4 police in an attack on a police post near the Somalia border.