Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region announced a major offensive against ISIL and a rival group, the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab, in December. An initial assessment of Saturday’s air strikes by the US ...

Strikes were carried out in north Somalia, where the Puntland Security Forces is carrying out operations against ISIL.

The names of the hijackers are pseudonyms on condition of speaking to Al Jazeera. Mogadishu, Somalia – Liban Hassan* has spent most of his adult life fishing off Somalia’s northeast coast ...

Somalian President Hasan Shiekh Mohamud is in dire need of the support of the United States to legitimize his fight against ...

After seven-week hijack, Puntland locals say they are victims of foreign trawlers. But China calls the attack ‘vicious’.