Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

  Kampala, Uganda President Yoweri Museveni and his Somali counterpart, Mohammed Abdullahi, have held bilateral talks on matters of mutual interest affecting both countries, Uganda and Somalia. The two leaders met yesterday at State House, Nakasero. President Mohamed Abdullahi arrived in the country yesterday for a working visit at the invitation of President Museveni. PRESIDENT-M7-MEETING-THE-SOMALI-PRESIDENT-MOHAMED-ABDULAHI-MOHAMED-AT-NAKASERO-STATE-HOUSE […]

The Philippines announced on Monday the end to five months of military operations in a southern city held by pro-Islamic State rebels, after a fierce and unfamiliar urban war that has marked the country’s biggest security crisis in years. © Ted Aljibe, AFP | Philippine soldiers walk past destroyed buldings in Bangolo district, after President […]

Photo: DPA. The largest döner kebab in the world was served at the Mall of Berlin on Friday, breaking the previous world record held by Australians from 2004. Back then, an Australian team had produced a 413 kilogram döner kebab. But Berliners managed to break that record by a narrow margin in the creation of […]

Catalan parties are due to meet on Monday to discuss their next steps at the start of a week that will see Spain dismiss the region’s government to stave off its threat to break away from the country. Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont. Photo: AFP Photo/Generalitat de Catalunya/Ruben Moreno Garcia  “What happens now, with everyone […]

Donald Trump said the EU would have supported US sanctions on Iran if he was insistent. But, according to the US president, he allowed Germany and France to keep making money with Tehran as America was capable of putting pressure on Iranians on itsown. U.S. President Donald Trump © Yuri Gripas / Reuters When asked […]

Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi examined the T129 ATAK Attack and Tactical Reconnaissance Helicopter, which has an important place in Turkey’s exports in defense industries, and participated in a test flight yesterday. Indicating that the ATAK is a very impressive helicopter, Abbasi said contract talks are continuing at full speed, expressing Pakistan’s desire to […]

Ahmadreza Djalali, a researcher at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute, has been sentenced to death in Iran, according to reports. Ahmadreza Djalali has been detained in Iran since last year. Photo: Personal/TT Researcher Ahmadreza Djalali has been detained since April 2016. He was arrested in Tehran for espionage and ‘enmity with God’ – a crime which in Iran can […]

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir attend a joint news conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia October 22, 2017 © Saudi Press Agency / Reuters As the fighting against Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq nears its end, Iraqi Shiite militias and their Iranian advisors need to “go home,” […]

Czechs this weekend elected a new prime minister who heaps scorn on the European Union and says his country shouldn’t have to accept a single refugee. The new Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, is also a blunt-spoken billionaire. | Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images  Germany just sent a radical far-right party to parliament for the first time […]

European Parliament chief Antonio Tajani said Europe should “fear” the spread of small nations as Spain struggled Sunday with the Catalonia crisis and the Italian regions of Lombardy and Veneto voted in referendums on greaterautonomy. Photo: AFP In an interview with the Rome daily Il Messaggero, the Italian politician said Europe must “of course fear” […]