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 ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - At least two civilians were killed, and five others wounded in a car bomb attack targeting an Italian military convoy in Mogadishu, the Somali capital on Monday morning, Garowe ...

BORAMA, Somalia, April 15 (UNHCR) - In a forgotten part of the world, Annalena Tonelli has braved beatings, kidnapping, banditry and death threats to wage a one-woman battle against tuberculosis, AIDS ...

ROME -- Sixteen sailors, including 10 Italians, whose tug was seized by Somali pirates four months ago are free after the pirates abandoned the ship, Italian authorities said today. Foreign Minister ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — An elderly Italian nun who devoted her life to helping the sick in Africa was shot dead by two gunmen at a hospital yesterday in an attack possibly linked to worldwide Islamic ...

(Adds details, background) By Ibrahim Mohamed and Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU, Aug 5 (Reuters) Ã Â Ã Â Somali kidnappers freed two Italian aid workers who had been held hostage in the chaotic Horn of Africa ...

Two Italian generals resigned their posts Saturday amid a growing scandal linking Italian peacekeepers to the torture of Somalian villagers. Gens. Bruno Loi and Carmine Fiore, who were in charge of an ...

It was 9 o’clock on a hot, equatorial night, and the locals were living it up outside Passoni’s Grocery Store on the potholed main drag of Mogadishu, capital of Somalia. Italian Settler Passoni, an ...

(adds details of charity) By Abdi Mohamed and Ibrahim Mohamed MOGADISHU, July 1 (Reuters) - Somali gunmen have kidnapped two local workers with an Italian charity in the latest attack on humanitarian ...