The Somali police department has declared, and warned that no more illegal rifles can be carried on the streets of the capital Mogadishu, and has also warned government soldiers and other ordinary people, not to carry arms in the city unless they are performing assigned duty or patrolling.
“in the past couple of months we have [...]
A Saudi prince tasked with heading his country’s anti-terrorism campaign was wounded on Thursday night when a wanted militant blew himself up in an apparent assassination attempt.
It was the first apparent retaliation since the kingdom began a crackdown on al-Qaeda affiliated groups eight years ago.
Prince Muhammad bin Nayef was lightly wounded in [...]
At least 21 people have been killed after heavy fighting breaks out between al-Shabaab and Somali government troops.
The three-hour fighting started when al-Shabaab fighters launched an ambush against Somali troops near Burundi AU Base.
Both sides used heavy weapons during the fighting. Sounds of heavy weapons could still be heard in many parts of Mogadishu last [...]
African Union soldiers contend with a vague and underfunded mission with no cease-fire to enforce. Among the troops who have died, some apparently succumbed to illness due to malnutrition.
Reporting from Mogadishu, Somalia – When a mystery illness swept through the African Union peacekeeping mission here, killing six soldiers and sickening dozens, doctors were stumped.
With help [...]
If the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board isn’t immune from identity theft, who is?!
Michael Isikoff, Newsweek’s investigative correspondent, reports that Ben Bernanke “was one of hundreds of victims of an elaborate identity-fraud ring, headed by a convicted scam artist known as ‘Big Head,’ that stole more than $2.1 million from unsuspecting consumers and at [...]
Sen. Edward Kennedy, who died Tuesday night of complications related to a cancerous brain tumor, was the last of his generation of Kennedy brothers.
And with his passing, the Kennedy family power dynasty is all but over.
Kennedy’s son Patrick remains a member of Congress, and Bobby Kennedy Jr. remains an outspoken advocate of causes. But others [...]
A top member of the al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab group holding the second agent said the man would be tried under sharia law.
“We know that the other French secret agent has gone free without judgment, but I tell you the one we are holding still waits for Islamic sharia court that will decide his fate as we [...]
Somalia’s president Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed has met with Amir of Qatar Sheik Hamad Bin Khalifa al Thani in Doha, Qatar, officials said on Friday.
President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed has also met with Qatari foreign minister and other governmnet officials.
Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed flew from Mogadishu to Qatar on Thursday and presidential associate said the [...]
In his attempt to improve relations with the Muslim world, President Obama has done what no other American president has ever done before.
Starting with his inauguration speech in which he stressed on the importance of relaxing the defensive posture so that the demonization process could stop. Following with his speech at the Turkish Parliament in [...]
Many of you have probably heard about the controversy that tainted the images of the Minneapolis mosques and the alleged “recruitments” of youngsters to the war-torn Somalia, but I wanted to move my focus to the East Coast, and up in Northern New England region of the United States. In 2009, the months of June [...]
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met Minister of Foreign Affairs of TFG Somalia Ali Ahmed Jama Jangeli
