Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

Last year Soma Oil and Gas, a London based energy company, searching for hydrocarbon deposits off the coast of Somalia, announced that it had completed a seismic survey to ascertain the potential for recoverable oil and gas deposits. Although further details have yet to be released, chief executive Rob Sheppard announced that the results were […]

Police outside the Fussilet mosque, now banned in Berlin. Photo: DPA. A Berlin mosque attended by the young Tunisian who attacked a Christmas market in December has shut its doors and been banned, as police on Tuesday launched a major raid against the capital’s Islamist scene. Berlin authorities have banned the Fussilet mosque, which Anis […]

E-mail Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The number of Islamic State militants killed since the launch of Iraqi forces offensives to retake western Mosul has surpassed 900, the police service said as the army prepares to invade a strategic IS stronghold. Federal Police chief, Lt. Gen. Shaker Jawdat, said in statements Tuesday that 929 Islamic State members were […]

Four American men have now been arrested in the robbery and fatal beating of a Somali immigrant cab driver. Christen Glenn, 18, of Greensburg, and Daniel Russell, 19, of Youngstown, Ohio, were arrested Sunday in Youngstown, Pittsburgh police said. They remained jailed in Ohio on Monday awaiting extradition on robbery, conspiracy and attempted homicide charges. […]

CHINA yesterday warned against the deployment of a controversial advanced United States missile defense system in South Korea, saying China’s security interests should not be undermined. The South Korean government decided last year to deploy the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in response to what it claims North Korean missile threat, on land […]

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard troops attack a naval vessel during a military drill in the Strait of Hormuz. Amid rising tension with the United States, Tehran has begun two-day military exercises in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, which has been the scene of confrontations between the rival countries Iran’s navy began an annual drill Sunday near […]

Somalia President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo gestures as he makes an address on February 8, 2017 in Mogadishu after he was elected president. The election marks the 10th anniversary of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom). PHOTO | AFP  The election of President Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed Farmajo offers Somalia’s international partners a new opportunity to […]

A misleading report serves as a cautionary tale against giving Muslims too much room to worship Been to Britain lately? If you managed to take in the city of Manchester, perhaps you were startled to find that the skyline is now “nothing but mosques.” That, at any rate, is how one of Russia’s flagship television news […]

Bridge in the western side of Anbar Province, a source told Alsumaria News on Monday. The source said, “The Islamic State group detonated Albu Hayat Bridge in al-Waleed vicinity in Rutba District, near al-Waleed port on the borders with Syria.” “The Islamic State blew up the bridge using high explosives, causing it to collapse,” the […]

Taliban confirm Mullah Abdul Salam Akhund’s death, saying he was killed by a US bombing raid in Kunduz. Mullah Abdul Salam Akhund previously been reported dead several times by Afghan officials [Twitter] A senior Taliban commander has been killed in an air raid in northern Afghanistan, the armed group said on Monday. Mullah Abdul Salam […]