Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

A bus driver in Lower Saxony faces a hefty fine after he repeatedly denied a Muslim woman wearing a niqab entry onto his bus. A police spokesman in Leer, Lower Saxony said on Thursday that the driver was being investigated for an administrative offence, with the fine possibly rising to €10,000. The woman was pregnant […]

President Donald Trump’s recent actions in Syria have even some of his strongest supporters worried that he might be falling for a neoconservative agenda U.S. President Donald Trump started out as a wild card candidate, daring to speak out about topics his opponents would not even think of bringing up during the hotly contested 2016 […]

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said a suspected chemical weapons attack was a “fabrication” to justify a US strike on his forces. The embattled leader, whose country has been ravaged by six years of war, said his firepower had not been affected by the attack ordered by US President Donald Trump, but acknowledged further strikes were […]

Man “patrolling” to impose what he calls “the civil part of the sharia law” has community leaders, police on watch. Abdullah Rashid, 22, a Georgia native who moved to Cedar-Riverside last year, says his group, General Presidency of the Religious Affairs and Welfare of the Ummah, is trying to enforce what he calls “the civil […]

DUBAI: Footage has been released of the moment a passenger on a London bus tackled a knife-wielding attacker before he fled the scene. The incident, which occurred on Wednesday in North West London’s Stoke Newington, involved a heroic commuter who managed to take a large knife off the attacker after a tense struggle. The armed […]

As tensions rise over Syria, US president seems to walk away from campaign promise to improve ties with Moscow. President Donald Trump has declared that US relations with Russia “may be at an all-time low”. His top diplomat offered a similarly grim assessment after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow earlier on Wednesday. “Right […]

A video with consequences of appliance of a 1.5-ton bomb by the Russian Aerospace Forces has been released in the Internet. The KAB-1500 bomb is considered to be the most powerful Russian bomb. The bomb was dropped by the Su-34 aircraft in the province of Idlib. An underground bunker of terrorists, which had played a […]

Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management Dr Maryan Qasim on was on Wednesday involved in a bitter row with Amisom security at Aden Abdulle Airport over what she said was unfair treatment of her. The new Minister claims she had been blocked from attending a meeting with EU Ambassador to Somalia. “We are working […]

A suspect detained in connection with the bombing of the Borussia Dortmund team bus came to Germany from Iraq, where he supposedly led an Islamic State unit responsible for numerous abductions and killings, the Federal Prosecutor’sProsecutor’s Office said. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office (GBA) said in a statement on Thursday it has issued an arrest warrant […]

China has reportedly ordered its army to be on nationwide alert and deployed 150,000 troops to the North Korean border as a U.S. armada is on its way to Korea to possibly shut down Pyongyang’s nuclear program.According to China’s state-owned newspaper, Global Times, unconfirmed reports said that 150,000 troops including Chinese soldiers march during a […]