Somalia accused the semi-autonomous Puntland region of hijacking a ship with military equipment destined for a training ...

Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region acknowledged it’s holding a vessel full of military equipment until it can work out ...

The United States launched a rare ground operation in northern Somalia that apprehended Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf, the finance emir for the Islamic State’s so-called Somali Province. The raid was the ...

“AFRICOM, alongside the Federal Government of Somalia and Somali Armed Forces, continues to take action to degrade ...

Al-Shabaab militants have captured the strategic central Somali town of Mahaas district, in Hiiran region of Somalia's Hirshabelle State, following heavy clashes with Somali government forces and ...

A stand off as Somalia demands release of a cargo ship carrying military equipment that was seized by semi-autonomous Puntland. The ship was reportedly transporting military equipment to Turkey’s ...

Puntland is relatively peaceful compared to southern Somalia, but local officials have grown concerned about the Islamic State’s rising strength, fueled by foreign fighters.

Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland said on Friday it had sent forces to the neighbouring region of Galmudug to help the military there push al Shabaab Islamist militants out of a ...

Once people in Puntland agree to something, he said, there is usually a strong commitment to deliver. “In a sense, it’s taking us back to what we saw many years ago in terms of a handshake and ...

The verdict in a gang-rape case of two teenage girls in Puntland, Somalia has sent ripples through the semi-autonomous East African state. Five boys were arrested after footage of the event was ...

Puntland, Somalia – Ahmed Osman, 34, gathered his tiny son into his arms and walked for three hours to reach the nearest medical centre in Dhudo village in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region of ...

This mirrors trends in other Western states. The pirates in Puntland and elsewhere are exploiting a vacuum created by the withdrawal of Western navies from the sea.