A mortar shell explosion in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region has killed more than 20 mostly children and young people and injured more than 50, according to media reports.

A landmine blast in the Somali capital Mogadishu killed eight people, and mortar rounds fired by insurgents at the city airport as the president returned killed six, eyewitnesses and medics said ...

A blast that ripped a hole in a commercial airliner shortly after take-off from Somalia's capital was probably caused by a bomb, aviation experts and the pilot who landed it safely said Wednesday ...

Addis Ababa, April 6, 2025 (ENA) -- The African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) revealed that Al Shabaab militants fired several mortar bombs into its Base Camp in ...

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the mortar attack, but al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group al-Shabaab claimed similar attacks in the past. Somalia has been plagued by insecurity for years, ...

A military spokesman in Somalia says a mortar has hit the presidential palace, killing four Ugandan peacekeepers. The mortar hit the palace during the eighth straight day of fighting in Somalia ...

Somalia has, famously, had no properly functioning central government for over 20 years. Its leaders have long been riven by internal clan rivalries, and hamstrung by outrageous institutional graft.

An April 19 U.S. airstrike in Somalia ... Somali soldiers look at a blast mark of car-bomb attack at a check point near a base where an American soldier was killed on June 8, 2018 by a mortar ...

4 Ukrainians held in Somalia. They were among 9 on helicopter in emergency landing. January 14, 2024 at 4:00 a.m. by TOM ODULA The Associated Press ...