Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

Something is quietly stirring in the Horn of Africa. Over the past month, the United States seems to have shown a renewed interest in Somalia and the kksecurity threats that emanate from it. On April 15, U.S. Africa Command confirmed that several dozen troops from the 101st Airborne Division would train and equip Somali forces […]

US president says move essential to restore “public trust” but fuels concerns about integrity of Clinton emails inquiry.  US President Donald Trump has abruptly dismissed the director of FBI, saying that James Comey was no longer able to effectively lead the law-enforcement agency. Comey had been leading an FBI investigation into allegations of Russian meddling […]

The raffle was part of Dubai Duty Free’s Millennium Millionaire Promotion Dubai Duty Free officials draw the lucky winner of the latest Millennium Millionaire raffle. Dubai: Indian housewife Shanthi Achuthan Kutty could not believe her luck when she won $1 million (Dh3.67) in the latest Dubai Duty Free raffle. Dubai Duty Free officials draw the […]

Norway’s anti-immigrant and libertarian Progress Party (FrP) voted on Tuesday to ban circumcision for boys under 16 and bar hijabs in public schools. The decisions were taken in the national annual conference of the FrP, in which the advocates of the circumcision ban claimed it causes “mental and physical harm to children.” A child is […]

Moon Jae-in wants to take a very different approach with North Korea.While much of the world has been focused on the elections in France, another hugely consequential political contest just wrapped up 5,500 miles away in South Korea. The election of Moon Jae-in, a left-leaning presidential candidate from the liberal Democratic Party, signals the end […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi government forces took over the western Mosul’s 30 Tamuz (July 30th), making another step forward on its new axis of operations against Islamic State militants. Nineveh Operaions commander, Lt. Gen Abdul-Amir Yarallah, said the forces recaptured the 30 Tamuz neighborhood and became on the outskirts of 10 Tamuz and al-Haramat al-Thaletha. Iraqi […]

– The Washington Times – Updated: 1:17 p.m. on Tuesday, May 9, 2017 Illegal immigration across the southwest border dropped yet again in April, with the number of illegal immigrant children fallen below 1,000 for the first time in recent records, Homeland Security announced Tuesday. mIn this Tuesday, May 2, 2017, photo, a Customs and […]

“They are treating me well to the extent they are able”  An Indian priest from Kerala, who was kidnapped by Daesh militants in Yemen last year, has again appealed for help in a new video. Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who hails from Kottayam, was abducted in March last year by Daesh terror group which attacked an […]

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime is flexing its diplomatic muscles to hunt its opponents wherever they are in the world Adnan R. Early last August, a group of Somali community leaders was invited to the Turkish consulate in Toronto to meet with some Turkish parliamentarians. The meeting was one leg of a Canadian tour for the […]