Somalia has been unstable now for decades ... Attacking the symptom will not cure the disease. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Sweet served 30 years as an Army intelligence officer. Mark Toth writes on national ...

Some State Department officials have proposed closing the embassy in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, as a precaution after recent gains by Al Shabab militants. By Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt ...

Before the establishment of the Islamic State in Somalia in 2015, the Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab had established itself in the north. The small group had extensive connections to smuggling ...

Somalia has been unstable now for decades ... Attacking the symptom will not cure the disease. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Sweet served 30 years as an Army intelligence officer. Mark Toth writes on ...