Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

Turkey’s swift response to Somalia’s deadliest truck bombing drew praise from survivors and officials who called Ankara their “only genuine” international partner.It is an implicit challenge to Western backers who have not, in the view of many Somalis; jumped to help.”Whenever there is a problem, Turkey helps us. Where are the other countries?” runs a […]

Ever since North Korea lobbed two missiles far above this windswept fishing town on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, seaweed farmer Mitsuyo Kawamura says she’s been on edge. Local resident Seiya Takahashi walks along Cape Erimo in Hokkaido.  Photo: REUTERS/Malcolm Foster National “Now when I hear a loud sound, I look outside, I look out at the […]

Six Afghan soldiers remain missing after the overnight attack [File: AP Photo] The Taliban launched a major attack on an army base in southern Kandahar province, killing at least 43 Afghan soldiers. The brazen assault on Thursday began with two suicide car bombings, setting off several hours of fighting. Of 60 soldiers manning the base, 43 were […]

North Korea threatened to inflict an “unimaginable” blow on the US at the most unexpected moment. © EPA/FAZRY ISMAIL TASS, October 19. North Korea threatened to inflict an “unimaginable” blow on the US at the most unexpected moment. That is according to a statement the Korean Central News Agency issued on Thursday in connection with the […]

A copy of the letter sent by Carles Puigdemont to Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy. Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFP Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has told Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy that the region’s parliament could formally vote through its suspended independence declarion if Madrid “persists in impeding dialogue”. In his second letter to Rajoy in less than a […]

JEDDAH: According to Sabq e-newspaper, the Criminal Court in Jeddah cleared the Dog Beauty Contest organizers of a charge addressing moral and religious indecency. The contest, which had created controversy on social media, was canceled by Jeddah municipality on Eid Al-Fitr 2016. The Criminal Court had held several sessions to examine this case, in which […]

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party said on Wednesday it wants the top job in the interior ministry in exchange for entering a coalition with election winner Sebastian Kurz. Heinz-Christian Strache. Photo: AFP Kurz’s conservative ÖVP party won 31.5 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election, near-complete results show, and the populist Freedom Party (FPÖ), came in third on 26.0 […]

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has launched an attack on U.S. President Donald Trump for his attempts to row back on the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and the international community. “It would be a waste of time to react to the nonsense spoken by the vulgar U.S. president,” Khamenei was cited by the […]

The government is considering equipping planned ground-based Aegis Ashore systems with the capacity to intercept cruise missiles, in addition to the ability to defend against ballistic missiles The Yomiuri Shimbun With Chinese bombers making repeated flights in areas around Japan, the government believes it should also prepare for attacks by cruise missiles, multiple government sources […]

Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP Smugglers have been stealing fuel in Libya and selling it on across Europe, according to Italian police. Italian police said on Wednesday that they had broken up a network selling low-quality Libyan diesel fuel worth €30 million euros at service stations in Sicily and as far away as France and Spain. Exclusive: […]