All of a sudden, Somalia faces an existential crisis: Al-Shabaab are within six kilometres of Mogadishu and are encircling ...

Somali security forces have ended a deadly 24-hour siege by Islamist fighters who stormed a popular hotel in the central city of Beledweyne, authorities said. The attack by al-Shabab began with a ...

Former Somali Prime-Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon ( Sa 39;iid) strongly condemned the deadly attack by Al-Shabaab on the Qahira ...

"The attackers have been neutralised. Some detonated themselves while others were killed by police forces," Omar Osman Calasow, the mayor of Beledweyne district, told the BBC. The mayor said seven ...

Gunmen stormed a hotel in the Somali city of Beledweyne on Tuesday, leaving at least five people dead and triggering an ongoing siege, according to witnesses and a Somali lawmaker.

Al-Shabaab militants stormed a hotel in central Somalia's Beledweyne on Tuesday, killing at least seven people, including local elders and officials, in a deadly siege that underscored the persistent ...

The raid at the Qahira Hotel took place as politicians, security officials and traditional elders were meeting to discuss plans for an offensive against al-Shabab in central Somalia. Police ...

Story continues below this ad Parts of the Qahira Hotel were reduced to rubble as government troops and gunmen exchanged fire, Suleiman added. Halima Nur, a witness who lives near the hotel, said ...

“We first heard a huge blast followed by gunfire, then another blast was heard,” said Ali Suleiman, a shopkeeper who witnessed the attack. Parts of the Qahira Hotel were reduced to rubble as ...