Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

An Isis group poster in the central Syrian town of Al-Sukhnah in August 2017. File photo: Stringer/AFP Italy said on Saturday it had deported two Moroccans and a Syrian on security grounds, lifting to 202 the number of potentially dangerous Islamists expelled since January 2015. The announcement came as security was raised after vehicle attacks […]

Iraqi forces continue to advance into the western axis. (File photo: AFP) Hours after announcing the launch of Tal Afar battle, Iraqi forces have liberated restricted areas in the west of Tal Afar, reported an Al Arabiya correspondent while quoting Raed Jawdat’s team. READ ALSO: Iraq launches operations to retake Tal Afar from ISIS Jawdat also […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Photo: Pool Presidential Press Service/AP/DPA President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday told German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel to “know your limits” after he vehemently criticised the Turkish leader for interfering in Germany’s upcoming elections. “He knows no limits! Who are you to talk to the president of Turkey? Know your […]

PM Haider al-Abadi announces ground operation to retake the northern city, telling ISIL fighters ‘surrender, or die’. Iraqi forces have launched a ground offensive to retake a key ISIL-held area in the northern part of the country, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said. “You either surrender, or die”, Abadi said in a televised speech announcing the […]

© Roni Lehti / Reuters The suspect behind the deadly stabbing attack in the Finnish city of Turku was an 18-year-old Moroccan asylum-seeker, investigators said, adding that it seems the attacker deliberately targeted women. “The suspect was seeking an asylum [in Finland],” Robin Lardot of the Central Bureau of Investigation said at a press conference on Saturday. The […]

Photo: tanjakrstevska/Depositphotos Police believe that the jihadist cell responsible for the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils that left 14 dead and more than 100 injured were originally planning something much bigger involving Barcelona’s most emblematic tourist sites. The terrorists planned to inflict as much carnage as possible by driving vans packed with explosives into three […]

FILE – Munira Khalif is seen in a screengrab from video during an interview with VOA’s Somali Servic A Somali-American from Minnesota will speak on behalf of youth at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly in New York and other events. Munira Khalif, who will be a junior this fall at Harvard University, was chosen […]

Lebanese army starts operation near Ras Baalbek while separate Hezbollah-Syrian army offensive begins in Qalamoun. The Lebanese army said it is not coordinating its operations with the Syrian forces [Reuters File] The Lebanese army has launched an offensive against an ISIL enclave straddling the northeast border with Syria. Simultaneously, Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia group, and the Syrian army […]

Spanish police are searching for a 22-year-old Moroccan man named Younes Abouyaaqoub, the lone remaining member of a terrorist cell thought to be behind the massacre on Las Ramblas. Spanish police expanded a manhunt Saturday for a Moroccan national believed to be one of the perpetrators of twin terror attacks in Barcelona and another seaside resort […]