2 Minnesota women sentenced for funding Somali terror group

1:58 AM [BERLIN] Who knew that buccaneers had bookkeepers? The authorities in Germany said on Monday that they had arrested a man, whom they identified only by the initial "M", who acted as the accountant for a band of Somali pirates who hijacked a ...

A man who admitted he lied before a grand jury investigating why young Somali men were leaving Minnesota to join a terrorist group in their homeland has been sentenced to two years in prison. Adarus Abdulle Ali pleaded guilty in 2009 to one count of ...

Columbia Pictures' action-thriller Captain Phillips stars two-time Oscar® winner Tom Hanks in the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to ...

In a story April 29 about a report estimating the number of Somalis who died in the country's 2011 famine, The Associated Press erroneously reported that about half of the 260,000 victims were age

A government official in Somalia says the death toll from al-Shababs attack on Mogadishus Supreme Court complex has risen to 35. Dahir Amin Jesow, a Somali parliamentarian who heads a security committee, said today that the toll from the attacks on the court ...

Around 11 people were killed on Sunday when a suicide attacker rammed a car laden with explosives into a government convoy at a busy junction in the Somali capital, police said.

The fight against Somali pirates has been so effective that they havent been able to mount a successful hijacking in nearly a year, the chair of the global group trying to combat the pirates has...

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A car bomb exploded at a busy road junction in the centre of the Somali capital on Sunday, apparently targeting a convoy of vehicles carrying officials, witnesses said. A Reuters photographer said he could see three people lying motionless near the wreckage ...