Somali Militants Attacked By Foreign Troops
Foreign soldiers have staged an attack on militants in Somalia, killing at least two people in a helicopter raid. The troops, who according to some r...
Foreign soldiers have staged an attack on militants in Somalia, killing at least two people in a helicopter raid. The troops, who according to some r...
Christian Science Monitor | Posted 09.07.2009 | 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...
Reuters | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
Suspected Somali pirates have seized a German-owned cargo ship off the coast of Oman, the first recorded attack in its territorial waters, NATO allian...
Global Post | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
By Tristan McConnell | GlobalPost BERBERA, Somaliland -- The slight figure of Farah Ismail Eid is a far cry from the swashbuckling, murderous imag...
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 06.22.2009 | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Hundreds of government soldiers attacked Islamic insurgents across the Somali capital amid heavy artillery shelling Friday,...
Telegraph | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
Somali pirates might be allowing themselves to be deliberately captured in order to take advantage of European asylum laws, Dutch legal experts have w...
Daily Telegraph | Mike Pflanz | Posted 06.15.2009 | World
Insurgents linked to al-Qaeda are on the verge of toppling Somalia's Western-backed government amid the worst fighting in the country's capital in mor...
Voice Of America | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
As Islamist insurgents continued an assault on government forces in Mogadishu, President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed signed a bill late Wednesday enacting Isl...
AP | MOHAMED SHEIKH NOR | Posted 06.13.2009 | 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 06.11.2009 | 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 06.08.2009 | 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 | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
Garowe, (WDN) - The Somali pirates that have wreaked havoc on the shipping lanes of the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean in recent years have been wi...
Warren Holstein | Posted 05.17.2009 | Comedy
Avast, ye picaroons! If landlubber Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has his way, good ole American privateers will be set loose on ye wily pillaging Somalian buccaneers and get all War of 1812 on yer booties.
Robert Naiman | Posted 05.15.2009 | World
The risk will now be even greater in any future standoff: any Somali pirate taking prisoners is going to be less likely to trust the U.S., and more likely to harm an American captive.
BBC | Posted 04.10.2009 | World
The cabinet in Somalia has endorsed a proposal by President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed to implement Islamic law in the country....
Nicole Stremlau | Posted 04.07.2009 | World
As the internationally recognized leader of Somalia, Sheikh Sharif has the major communications challenge of selling his government both internally and externally.
Worldfocus | Posted 02.21.2009 | World
Worldfocus.org's weekly radio show explores the worsening situation in Somalia, taking a look beyond the pirate frenzy offshore and examining the caus...
Eric Margolis | Posted 01.30.2009 | World
The proud towers of Wall Street have fallen, disgorging packs of thieves and fraudsters. The mighty US suddenly exposed as the proverbial king without clothes. Uncle Sam is bankrupt.
Chris Albin-Lackey | Posted 01.29.2009 | World
US policy not only has displayed a callous disregard for the basic human rights of Somalis, but it has failed on its own terms, breeding the very extremism it sought to eliminate.
Sean Jacobs | Posted 01.12.2009 | Media
The pirates seem to understand that their defense does not only depend on arms. They clearly understand the worth of good PR.
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN and ELIZABETH KENNEDY | Posted 12.21.2008 | Home
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful wome...
New York Times | JEFFREY GETTLEMAN | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics
The trouble started when government soldiers went to the market and, at gunpoint, began to help themselves to sacks of grain last week. Islamist insu...
BBC NEWS | Posted 11.14.2009 | World