Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

HE the Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, yesterday described the talks between HH the Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, and Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo, as ‘successful’ and ‘fruitful.’ During a joint press conference with the Somali Foreign Minister Yussef Jarad Omar Ahmed, Sheikh Mohamed said the discussions between the two […]

After successful missile launches, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un often exchanges smiles and hugs with the same three men and shares a celebratory smoke with them. The three, shown with Kim in photographs and TV footage in North Korean media, are of great interest to Western security and intelligence agencies since they are the […]

Former United States President Barack Obama said at a Berlin reunion with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday that he was “heartbroken” by a suicide bombing that killed 22 people in Manchester. “We can see the terrible violence that took place just recently in Manchester… it’s a reminder that there is great danger of terrorism […]

US President Donald Trump used his first NATO summit on Thursday to urge the alliance to do more to tackle terrorism and immigration as well as Russia. “The NATO of the future must include a great focus on terrorism and immigration as well as threats from Russia and NATO’s eastern and southern borders,” Trump said […]

While Turkey’s long-term and wide-ranging activities in Somalia including development and infrastructure projects as well as investments in education and health continue, Ankara has also lent a humanitarian hand to the drought-stricken country through the Turkish Red Crescent by delivering food aid to hundreds of families The Turkish Red Crescent has recently picked up pace […]

A federal appeals court has dealt another blow to President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban targeting six-Muslim majority countries. The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that blocks the Republican’s administration from temporarily suspending new visas for people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. US President Donald Trump’s […]

Iran has built a third underground ballistic missile production factory and will keep developing its missile programme, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted a senior commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard as saying. The development is likely to fuel tensions with the United States in a week when President Donald Trump, on his first foreign […]

President Trump began a busy day in Brussels Thursday meeting with European Union leaders and then newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron, with trade and security topping Mr. Trump’s agenda. “We have a lot to discuss, including terrorism and other things,” Mr. Trump said before meeting with Mr. Macron at the U.S. ambassador’s residence. U.S. […]

Kang Kyung-wha, President Moon Jae-in’s pick for foreign minister, said Thursday humanitarian aid to North Korea should come with no strings attached. Still, she called for taking “stern measures” against Pyongyang if it continues with its military provocations. Her view is in line with Moon’s pursuit of sanctions and dialogue simultaneously in resolving the North […]

German police said they arrested nine drug trafficking suspects, including four suspected Islamist militants, in early morning raids Wednesday. Police arrested four “Islamists considered capable of resorting to violence”, in the operation to dismantle a drug trafficking ring, said police and the Berlin public prosecutor’s office in a statement. File Photo: DPA They also seized […]