Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

The United States on Thursday began enforcing new visa rules on some travellers who have visited or who have dual nationality with states considered seedbeds of terrorism. The Department of Homeland Security said would-be US visitors who have been to Iran, Iraq, Sudan or Syria since March 2011 will now always have to apply for […]

Somalia’s security forces ended a deadly siege of a beachfront restaurant in the capital, with more than 20 people killed in the attack, a police official said Friday. The security forces took control of the restaurant just before dawn, said Capt Mohamed Hussein, speaking from the scene of the attack in Mogadishu. It was not […]

Popular beachfront restaurants have been hit by car bombs and gunmen in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The first car bomb went off in the early evening, followed soon after by as many as five gunmen approaching from the beach. A second car bomb went off half an hour later, BBC Somali reports. One report said […]

The fate of at least 12 Kenyan soldiers held by al Shabaab remains unknown, almost a week after the attack on the KDF El Adde base inside Somalia. Sources in Somalia said the militants have moved the hostages from a village towards Jilib in the Middle Juba region on the main road from the capital […]

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan central spokesperson Muhammad Khorasani on Wednesday denied any involvement in an attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, contradicting an earlier admission by the group claiming the attack. Refuting TTP commander Umar Mansoor’s claims that the militant group was behind the attack, Khorasani in an email sent to media men said, “The TTP […]

18 January – Expressing concern over the impact on vital remittances from diaspora countries into Somalia caused by “necessary but less considered counter-terrorism regulations,” United Nations rights experts today warned the measures may “severely affect the human rights” of Somali people, while urging regulation-setting governments to guarantee the flow of such funds. “Remittances are an […]

LEADERSHIP: PM Raila CALLS for The attack on and murder of Kenya soldiers operating in Somalia under the auspices of AMISON constitutes the worst such act against our troops in our history as a nation. This attack has sparked off understandable panic, anger and uncertainty among our citizens who are seeking to better understand how […]

The abductees are reported to be family members of soldiers fighting for the Syrian regime , reports the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ( Sohr ) . – There is a genuine fear of the group ( IS) may execute them , as they did before in other areas, said Rami Abdel Rahman , […]

  RIYADH: The Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTNH) has warned all providers of tourist accommodation services, including furnished apartments and hotels, against refraining from providing such services to women without mahram (guardian). Non-acceptance of women without mahram in these facilities violates the SCTNH system, the commission said. Housing of a woman without […]