Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

Nairobi (AFP) – US President Barack Obama has ordered a “relentless” war against the Islamic State, and has cited the ongoing intervention in Somalia as a model for intervention in Syria and Iraq. So drawing on the experience of US operations against Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels, what can the Islamic State expect to face in […]

Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that Washington would not stand by and watch while the brutal extremists terrorizing Iraq continued to spread their “evil.” Kerry made the comments during a visit to Baghdad in which he pledged the U.S.’s support in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), hours […]

MOGADISHU: Somalia’s president on Friday thanked the United States for killing the leader of the country’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants in an air strike earlier this week. “The Somali government thanks the US government and individuals in the Somali security forces who helped the operation,” said a statement from the office of Somalia’s internationally-backed President Hassan […]

  Mogadishu, Somalia – A suspected U.S. drone strike targeted senior leaders of Al-Shabaab in southern Somalia, but it’s not clear if the leader of the Islamic militant group was wounded or killed, a Somali official said Tuesday. The Pentagon would only say it carried out an operation in Somalia, but didn’t offer additional details. […]

A Minnesota Somali community leader said Thursday that he has multiple photos of a dead soldier believed to be a second man with Minnesota ties killed while fighting with terrorists in Syria. Omar Jamal, former head of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center and a longtime Somali activist in Minneapolis, said he showed the photos to a […]

MOMBASA, Kenya, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) — Somali militants, Al- Shabaab members on Friday beheaded a Kenyan driver who was kidnapped at Kiunga, along the border with Somalia in the coastal town of Lamu. The body of George Mwita was discovered during rescue operation carried out by Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) soldiers and police within the […]

Farah Mohamed Shirdon was spotted in June fighting with the group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which now calls itself Islamic State. According to Arabic and English-language reports on social media, mainly from Iraq, Shirdon has been killed. Nathan Little recalled playing video games with Shirdon, who was a classmate at both […]

  Mogadishu’s new police commissioner was once wanted in Canada as a “war criminal” after a refugee and immigration board concluded he was “responsible for the ruthless torture of prisoners” while with Somalia’s police force i       David Mutua / AMISOM Photo Somalia’s deputy minister of National Security Ibraahim Yarow Isaaq, centre, is […]

Somali finance minister hails PFM progress By Judith Ugwumadu | 28 July 2014 Public financial management in Somalia has made significant steps forward, according to finance minister Hussein Abdi Halane. Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital city, Photo: TEDx His comments follow on from the country’s second Financial Governance Committee progress report, which was made publicly available on […]

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been mired in scandal  The United Nations has accused two advisers to the Somali president of sending arms to al-Shabaab in a shipment which arrived just weeks after the Islamist militant group’s fighters stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi last September and killed at least 64 people. One of the aides, […]