Somalia: Islamists Yank Gold Teeth Of 'Sinners'
The notorious Somali Islamist group al Shabaab is yanking gold and silver teeth from the mouths of people in southern Somalia for transgressing from I...
The notorious Somali Islamist group al Shabaab is yanking gold and silver teeth from the mouths of people in southern Somalia for transgressing from I...
Christian Science Monitor | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
The Horn of Africa is a hotbed of pirates, Islamic radicals, warlords, refugees, and, lately, foreign armies trying to influence this killing field. T...
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday pledged to expand American support for Somalia's weak interim govern...
McClatchy | Shashank Bengali | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Late last year, 17-year-old Aliow Ali Hassan vanished from his adopted home in Kenya, leaving behind a teenage wife, three children ...
BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Kenya has promised to reinforce its border with Somalia after several abductions near the frontier....
BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Two French security advisers seized in Somalia this week have been split up and are now being held by two different hardline groups, reports say....
AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali Islamist fighters on Friday beheaded seven prisoners accused of abandoning the Muslim faith and spying for the governmen...
Al Jazeera English | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Thousands of people have fled the Somali capital Mogadishu amid escalating fighting between government forces and opposition fighters....
AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A court run by an extremist Islamic group sentenced four Somali men on Monday to each have a hand and a leg cut off for all...
Christian Science Monitor | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
With or without an international mandate, Ethiopian forces have entered Somali territory to back up a fast-failing Somali government....
BBC | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
A Somali politician has been killed by gunmen in the capital, Mogadishu, the government has confirmed....
allAfrica | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Since fighting broke out last month between Government forces and armed opposition groups, almost 100,000 people have been driven from their homes in ...
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Hundreds of government soldiers attacked Islamic insurgents across the Somali capital amid heavy artillery shelling Friday,...
BBC | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Hardline Islamist militants have captured a strategically important town north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, eyewitnesses say....
AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya — After months of hopeful glimmers in one of the most explosive countries in the world, violence again is roiling Somalia as mort...
AP | MOHAMED SHEIKH NOR | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Pro-government militias and Islamic insurgents battled in Somalia's capital Wednesday for a fourth day, as an insurgent lea...
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Somalia's president accused Islamist insurgents on Monday of working for foreign governments trying to destabilise his Horn of Africa nation after fou...
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Abshir Boyah, a towering, notorious Somali pirate boss who admits to hijacking more than 25 ships and to being a member of a secretive pirate council ...
WardheerNews | Faisal A. Roble | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
The LA Times (January 18, 2009 - "Young men vanish into Somalia") and Newsweek (January 24, 2009- Recruited for Jihad)ran articles on the vanishing yo...
BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
An Islamist militia has executed a Somali politician who they accused of betraying his religion by working with non-Muslim Ethiopian forces. An Isl...
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Islamic insurgents attacked Somalia's presidential palace and five civilians were killed Wednesday, underscoring fears the ...
IRIN Africa | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Ethiopian troops for the first time quit some of their bases in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on 13 January, locals told IRIN. Muse Nur Amin, the ...
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Islamic insurgents appeared to be scrambling for power Saturday, taking over several police stations in the capital as Ethi...
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A powerful insurgent group poised to take over Somalia said Wednesday it will fight until the country is ruled by Islamic l...
CNN | Chris Welch and Kelli Arena CNN | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) -- Last month, 17-year-old Burhan Hassan told his family he was catching a ride to school with a friend. He then vanished...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | World