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After Mohamed Ibrahim Suley joined Somalia's al-Qaida-linked insurgency, foreign fighters taught him how to plant bombs and plan assassinations. He fought alongside an Indian, an Eritrean and an American.
Aweys Abdullahi Ali has never known a day of peace in Somalia. Gunmen have killed his mother, set his home on fire, driven away his friends. Ali, who is 20, sees no end to the violence.
Two masked gunmen killed the director of one of Somalia's largest broadcasters on Sunday, a witness and media official said, raising to five the number of journalists killed in Somalia this year.
A suicide bomber killed three guards Sunday at a military base in the Somali capital, a government official said, an attack that comes after two weeks of intense fighting in war-torn Mogadishu.
Gunmen released two European aid workers on Tuesday after holding them for nearly 10 days in southwestern Somalia.
A group of influential Somali Islamic clerics has rejected Osama bin Laden's call to Somalis to overthrow the country's new president, the group's leader said on Friday.
The Somali Cabinet voted to make Islam the basis of the country's legal system on Tuesday in a bid to undercut an increasingly fractured Islamic insurgency.
Four youths were publicly whipped in the Somali capital on Monday after an Islamist court convicted them of gang rape, in a demonstration of the U.N.-backed government's inability to administer justice in this chaotic nation.
Kenya announced sanctions against the Somali president Tuesday, a strong public rebuke to a man who has been increasingly marginalized as his country struggles with a powerful insurgency and piracy off the coast.
Pirates who seized a Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 million in crude anchored the ship within sight of impoverished Somali fishing villages Tuesday, while other bandits took control of an Iranian cargo ship — the seventh vessel hijacked in 12 days.
The Somali government is close to collapse because disputes within its ranks have allowed armed Islamic insurgents to take control of much of the country, the president said.
A Somali official says gunmen have kidnapped two Western Catholic nuns in Kenya and taken them over the border into southern Somalia.
Two foreign aid workers appealed for their freedom Friday in the Somali capital, surrounded by armed kidnappers who seized them last month in a restive region of Ethiopia, local media reported.
Mortar shells slammed into a residential area in Somalia's capital, killing at least 10 people — including a mother and her child, witnesses and a hospital official said Tuesday.
The U.N. has condemned the slaying of a senior staff member in Somalia but says there are no plans to halt operations.
A Somali journalist who contributed to news organizations including The Associated Press was remembered Monday as a courageous reporter who became the latest media figure "singled out for attack and assassination."
A roadside bomb killed eight civilians and wounded nine others when it exploded near a minibus full of passengers in the war-ravaged Somali capital on Sunday, witnesses and hospital staff said.
Two kidnapped foreign aid workers are believed to be safe and police are on the trail of the gunmen who abducted them, Somali officials said Friday.
Insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles attacked an Ethiopian army base in northern Mogadishu, triggering a deadly nighttime clash that sent stray mortar rounds crashing into homes, residents and witnesses said Sunday.
Two Somali pirates accused of hijacking a Japanese tanker have been arrested in northeastern Somalia, but up to a dozen more were still on the run, police said Thursday.
Pirates freed a Japanese tanker and its 22 crew members apparently unharmed off the Somali coast Wednesday, a U.S. Navy spokesman said. A man who claimed he was one of the pirates said a ransom was paid for the release.
Residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an Islamic courts official said Wednesday, adding the edict will be implemented in three days.
Islamic leaders Monday banned youthful Somalis from marrying without the consent of their parents, saying such unions violate Islam.
An Islamic court has banned women from swimming at the main beach in Somalia's capital, the latest step to impose strict religious rule that has sparked fears of an emerging, Taliban-style regime.
An elderly Italian nun who devoted her life to helping the sick in Africa was shot dead by two gunmen at a hospital Sunday in an attack possibly linked to worldwide Muslim anger toward Pope Benedict XVI.
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