Puntland Defense Forces posed next to a sign in Arabic that proclaimed the mountain town of Sheebaab as a “province” of the Islamic State group. The town, located in Somalia’s autonomous northeastern ...

For decades, Puntland has fought this war alone. Its soldiers have stormed terrorist hideouts in the mountains and caves, losing their lives in the battle to cleanse their land of foreign and local ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The draft of a letter from Somali President Hassan Sheikh ... also faces uncertainty over its relations with Puntland, a semi-autonomous region whose port city of ...

Mogadishu — U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and Somali government forces have conducted a joint operation targeting ISIS militants in the Calmiskaad Mountains of the Bari region in Puntland ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ido Levy, American University (THE CONVERSATION) On Feb. 24, 2025, members of the ...

Puntland declared itself an autonomous region of Somalia in 1998 amid the ongoing Somali civil war and has since achieved relative stability compared with the other parts of the country ...

Puntland's success in combating a growing Islamic State group presence in the northeastern region is particularly notable given the relative lack of success of the central Somali government's ...