Pope Benedict XVI praised the Christian witness of an Italian nun for pardoning her killers as she lay dying from an attack in Somalia. Sr. Leonella Sgorbati, an Italian missionary who worked in a ...

A US base and an Italian military convoy were targeted in separate attacks in Somalia on Monday. Al-Shabaab militants staged a simultaneous car bomb and gun attack on the Baledogle US facility, while ...

A US base and an Italian military convoy were targeted in separate attacks in Somalia on Monday. Al-Shabaab militants staged a simultaneous car bomb and gun attack on the Baledogle US facility, while ...

Suspected Somali pirates attacked an Italian-owned cargo ship on Monday as it headed for Kenya's Mombasa port through one of the world's most dangerous waterways, a regional maritime group said.

MOGADISHU, Somalia - An Italian aid worker who was kidnapped by suspected Al-Shabaab gunmen in Kenya two years ago has been released, Rome said on Saturday, thanking the intelligence services for her ...

Two Italian nuns abducted by Al Shabab militias last November have been freed. An Italian Foreign Ministry spokesman gave no details on the release but a Catholic missionary news agency said the two ...