Pirates who seized a Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 million in crude oil anchored the ship within sight of impoverished Somali fishing villages Tuesday, while the...

A Somali official is vowing to rescue a hijacked Saudi oil supertanker “by using force if necessary.”

A spokesman for a Somali Islamic group says they have publicly whipped 32 tradional dancers because it is “Un-Islamic” for men and women to dance together.

President Abdullahi Yusuf has described his government as “on the verge of collapse” because disputes within its ranks have allowed its opponents to take...

A radical Islamic group seized another Somali port town Saturday, consolidating its control over a southwestern region that borders the Somali capital.

With an assault rifle slung over his shoulder and a glass of sweet tea in his hand, 15-year-old Farah Ismail was all smiles Friday at an outdoor cafe in Mogadishu, one...

Residents say Islamic fighters have seized the town of Elasha, just 11 miles (18 kilometers) southwest of the Somali capital.

A Somali Islamist militia seized a key port town Wednesday, consolidating recent gains as its two-year long insurgency strengthens and seizes ever-greater swathes of...

An Islamic militia that the U.S. considers a terrorist organization took over two strategic towns in Somalia on Tuesday, the latest territory grab by a strengthening...

Gunmen firing automatic weapons dragged two Italian Roman Catholic nuns from their home in rural Kenya on Monday and drove them into lawless Somalia in a rare...

Gunmen seized two Italian Catholic nuns from a church in northern Kenya before dawn Monday and took them across the border into a Somali region largely controlled by...

A Somali official says gunmen have kidnapped two Western Catholic nuns in Kenya and taken them over the border into southern Somalia.

Gunmen killed the deputy governor of the Bay region in southwestern Somalia on Sunday as separate violence over the weekend killed at least seven people, including an...

Gunfights killed at least six people in Mogadishu on Sunday, and an aid worker was fatally shot in a separate attack in southern Somalia, officials and witnesses said.

Two gunmen fatally shot an aid worker as he walked out of a mosque in Somalia, the latest in a string of attacks on the humanitarian community, witnesses said Sunday.

Somali authorities have arrested an Islamic cleric suspected of involvement in a wave of suicide attacks that killed more than 20 people, an official said Thursday.

A Somali official says authorities have arrested an Islamic cleric suspected of involvement in a wave of suicide attacks that killed more than 20 people.

Suicide bombers struck a U.N. compound, the Ethiopian consulate and three other targets in northern Somalia Wednesday, killing at least 22 people in attacks that...

A spokesman for a breakaway republic in northern Somalia says at least 19 people have died in three suicide attacks.

Suicide bombers struck targets across northern Somalia on Wednesday, including a U.N. compound, officials said. There were deaths and dozens of injuries, but an exact...