A Somali government-led alliance with clans may be a winning strategy against the al Qaeda-linked terrorist group al-Shabab. The Somali clan strategy — a homegrown indigenous-led campaign — is proving ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A violent clash over the weekend between two clans in central Somalia has killed at least 55 people and injured another 155, residents and medical officials said on Monday.

Despite this apparent governance success, al-Shabab faces a crucial paradox: legitimacy without popularity. While Somalis may ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Renewed clan warfare threatens the future of Kismayo, where African Union and Somali troops earlier this week pushed out Islamic extremists. Kismayo was the last bastion ...

(Corrects spelling of Mogadishu in dateline) MOGADISHU, March 13 (Reuters) - Fighting between two clans in central Somalia over land and water killed at least 11 people and wounded several others on ...

Somalia's interim prime minister hopes to form a unity government, with participation from the nation's many competing clans. Ali Muhammad Ghedi says a first step will be a National Reconciliation ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Clan leaders discussed abandoning Islamic militias that control the Somali capital and throwing their support to government forces, which advanced to within striking distance of ...

(Updates with U.S. aid to Somalia, paragraphs 9-11) By Guled Mohamed MOGADISHU, Aug 18 (Reuters) - At least 16 people were killed and 30 others wounded on Saturday in a fierce gun battle between rival ...

KAKUMA, Kenya (UNHCR) - Hawiya Abdi Aden does not speak a word of English. She has never ever seen a washing machine, nor a flush toilet, nor a commercial airliner. But in a few months' time, this ...

The revived Somali national army assembled here Friday in the sand-blown yard of the former parliament, a hollowed-out building splashed with grenade blasts and scrawled with apocalyptic graffiti.