Tag: Somali National Army

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia's national security adviser, Aways Haji Yusuf, confirmed on Tuesday 1 September that soldiers from the Saudi-funded ...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The Somali Armed Forces announced on 30 August that they were running a major operation against al-Shabaab ...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Former President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has accused the national army and the Presidential Guard of taking ...

Baidoa, SOMALIA – Fighters loyal to former Southwest State President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen battled federal troops inside Baidoa for ...

Xananbuure, SOMALIA – Roughly 3,000 soldiers passed out on Sunday at the Xananbuure training camp in Galgadud, the largest class ...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – A military truck carrying Somali soldiers between the garrisons at Awdhegle and Mubarak was destroyed by a ...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The commander of the Somali National Army is weighing a return to uniform for Ali Jeyte Osman, ...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Al-Shabaab has spent nearly two decades learning one lesson about its enemies: they leave. Governments turn over, ...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The African Union mission tasked with holding back al-Shabaab is running out of money, and the timing ...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Al-Shabaab is learning to fly. United Nations and American intelligence reporting indicates the group has acquired drone ...