MOGADISHU, Somalia — A veiled female journalist (who also happens to be wearing a snug denim skirt) sits in a soundproof studio with a fuzzy microphone in front of her face. “Salaam Aleikum,” she says ...

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Bashir Osman moves hurriedly along a white sandy beachfront, giving instructions to a driver operating a bulldozer. Near them, a large truck is ferrying away piles of rocks, clearing a sun-soaked ...

MOGADISHU, SomaliaMOGADISHU, Somalia — An emergency official in Somalia’s capital says at least 40 civilians have been killed and more than 130 wounded in fighting between Islamist insurgents and ...

Hundreds of Mogadishu residents were fleeing the war-ravaged city on Wednesday, ahead of a large offensive Somalia’s government has promised against the insurgents to wrest back control of the country ...

MOGADISHU, SomaliaMOGADISHU, Somalia — Mogadishu’s new mayor has paid his employees, gotten some of the garbage picked up and turned the lights on. In this city of rubble and bombed-out buildings, ...