Armed Islamists have stormed a hotel in the city of Beledweyne in central Somalia, and a siege is ongoing, police and ...

A car bomb has exploded at a hotel in the central Somali city of Beledweyne, kicking off an hourslong militant attack. An unknown number of people have been killed.

Beledweyne, located about 335 kilometers (208 miles) north of Mogadishu, is the capital of the Hiran region and a strategic ...

Al Shabaab gunmen killed at least seven people in an attack on Tuesday at a hotel in a central Somali town where local elders and government officials were meeting to discuss how to act against the ...

A Somali official explains how a show of national ownership, open communication and rare unity has brought an unlikely IMF ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Gunmen stormed a hotel in the town of Baladweyne in central Somalia on Tuesday where local elders and government officials were meeting and a siege is ongoing, witnesses and ...

"We encourage dialogue between the Yemen and Al-Shabaab sanctions Panels ... to shed light on and ultimately sever the ties ...

(Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a hotel in the town of Baladweyne in central Somalia on Tuesday and a siege was ongoing, two witnesses told Reuters. Dahir Amin Jesow, a federal lawmaker from Baladweyne, ...

Since then, U.S. Africa Command said it conducted several other airstrikes in coordination with the government of Somalia to ...

The United States has been carrying out operations in Somalia since at least 2002 without a formal war declaration.

The U.S. embassy in Somalia has warned Americans they are tracking “credible information” regarding potentially imminent terror attacks in Somalia.

A clan elder in Beledweyne said the hotel meeting was meant to discuss ways of countering al Shabaab in the region.