Somalia’s creation of a new federal state has sparked hope for marginalised regions—but also escalated tensions with Puntland ...

Talks between Turkey and Puntland follow the seizure of a military cargo ship amid simmering disputes over authority with ...

Authorities in Somalia's Puntland state agreed to release a Comoros-flagged cargo vessel carrying weapons following a visit ...

An American raid on Friday saw U.S. troops capture Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf, the chief money man for ISIS in Somalia since 2019 ...

The Puntland administration is preparing a military operation targeting Al-Shabaab militants entrenched in the Calmadow mountains of Somalia's Sanaag region, security sources told Radio Shabelle.Armed ...

Somalia accused the semi-autonomous Puntland region of hijacking a ship with military equipment destined for a training facility in the capital, Mogadishu, that’s run by the Turkish government.

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

That is, when citizens of Puntland are ready to vote, IDs will make it easy for election judges to manage voters. “It will help us know the population of the residents,” Garaad said.

The only sure way to deal with pirates is to kill them. Piracy is on the rise on the high seas, but governments - including ours - are not taking the threat seriously enough. The first seizure of ...

Somaliland and Puntland have had a long-running dispute over the provinces of Sool and Sanaag, which run from the Gulf of Aden all the way to the eastern borders of Ethiopia.

Puntland, where drought has also ravaged the countryside, however, considers itself more stable. Local leaders say they have been sounding the alarm for more than a year to little effect.

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 ...