The army of the semi-autonomous Puntland region in Somalia said Friday they had taken control of a "strategic mountain command base" of the Islamic State group (IS).

Authorities in Somalia’s Puntland region this week banned the illegal entry of foreigners and ordered telecom companies to deactivate SIM cards linked to undocumented people and Islamic State ...

Puntland, an autonomous region in northeastern Somalia, has announced a stringent ban on the illegal entry of foreigners, aiming to curb the influence and operations of ISIS militants within its ...

In an interview with VOA’s Somali Service, a spokesperson for Puntland security operations, Brigadier General Mohamud Mohamed ...

Somalia, a country located at the easternmost tip of the African continent, occupies the region known as the Horn of Africa, bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Kenya to the south, the Gulf of Aden ...

BOSASO, Somalia—In a critical development aimed at stabilizing ... including the rugged terrain of the Golis Mountains, where ISIS operatives have traditionally maintained a stronghold. Advanced ...

As counterterrorism operations against the terrorist group identifying itself as the Islamic State in Somalia (ISIS)… Sii akhri ...