The U.S. airstrike on al Shabaab in Somalia underscores AFRICOM's mission to degrade terrorist threats, with support from Somali government and forces.

Despite declaring independence from Somalia in 1991, Somaliland is unrecognized by foreign governments. Now, it hopes the US ...

Opinion - For decades, the international community has held fast to the aspiration of a unified Somalia. Yet that ...

So it was also with South Asia. In 1946, Sir Francis Tucker, the head of Eastern Command, proposed a British protectorate ...

What legal and historical arguments does Somaliland use? The Somali National Movement is one of the main clan-based insurgent movements responsible for the collapse of the central government in ...

It claims the territory of the former British protectorate of Somaliland. The UK had granted Somaliland sovereign status on 26 June 1960. The Somali government tried to stomp out calls for secession.

And without the contribution of Empire and Commonwealth countries, final victory against Germany and Japan might never have been possible ...

Four South Africans were awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest British military decoration for valour in the face of the ...

Egerton would take over the supreme command, and since his arrival in Somaliland he has been engaged in preparing for the present campaign. The British troops withdrew in July to Upper Sheik ...