The attack came just 10 days after the hijacking of another Yemeni-flagged boat, Al Najma, which was freed on February 13, ...

Four days after securing the release of a Yemeni fishing dhow from suspected pirates off Somalia, Operation Atalanta was ...

The Post ventured to the front lines of an offensive against the Islamic State in northern Somalia, where foreign fighters are flowing in and cash is flowing out.

The Islamic State has also become a more sophisticated fighting force, employing suicide ... Abdirahman Mohamed Jama, head of the Puntland Maritime Police Forces. “Yesterday, we had 10 ...

*The names of the hijackers are pseudonyms on condition of speaking to Al Jazeera. Mogadishu, Somalia – Liban Hassan* has spent most of his adult life fishing off Somalia’s northeast coast ...

Their plight only ended when the Puntland Maritime Police Force stormed the vessel and freed the surviving sailors. Though this was a piracy case, the underlying issue was the same: once a vessel ...

In a statement, Puntland Police Force maintained that the reports were false, but acknowledged a minor incident where individuals threw stones at immigrants, which was quickly addressed adding that ...

The United States and the United Arab Emirates are conducting airstrikes in northern Somalia in support of Puntland’s military offensive against the local Islamic State branch. Tracking UAE’s strikes ...