The Latest Breaking News from Somalia

Fighters from Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group on Tuesday recaptured a military base in the south that they had lost to the army in January, a Somali officer and a local resident said.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, President Mohamud talks Somaliland, the fight against al-Shabab and Somalia’s future.

Representatives from the United States, Britain, Qatar, Somalia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey met on Tuesday and expressed concern at the conflict in and around Laascaanood, a disputed town in Somalia's northern breakaway region of Somaliland, according to a statement released by the State Department.

When her three-month-old baby fell sick from malnutrition, Dool Abdirahman Ismael left her village in Somalia and walked for three days through swirling dust and scorching heat to the Dadaab Refugee Camp just across the border in Kenya.

Three people died and eight others were injured when a helicopter operated by the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia crashed on Saturday in the country's Lower Shabelle region, the mission said in a statement on Sunday.

Below-normal rainfall is expected over the next three months in parts of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia.

A climate center says the trends in a historic Horn of Africa drought are worse than they were in a 2011 drought in which at least a quarter-million people died

Ten people were killed in an attack in Somalia's capital claimed by the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group, which said it was targeting military officials and militia fighters involved in an offensive against it.

Somalis arrive in Ethiopia from disputed town of Las Anod, where at least 82 people have died in fighting