Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

The broader conflicts around control of the Red Sea and its littorals are being played out in the new aspects of the transformation of the Republic of Somaliland, which dominates the southern coastline of the Red Sea mouth into the Indian Ocean, but which also remains internationally unrecognized. At its core, the collapse of governance […]

Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Joint Operations Command announced on Wednesday, that security forces managed to foil an attempt to attack the city of Samarra. The Joint Operations Command Said in a press statement, “The Command received intelligence information indicating that the Islamic State extremist group is planning to raid the city of Samarra.” “After studying the targets, […]

In first speech to Congress, new president announces special office to assist victims of crimes committed by immigrants President Donald Trump said he has given orders to create a special office to assist victims of crime by immigrants: “VOICE” – Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement. According to the Independent, the VOICE agency is expected to […]

 Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi army forces recaptured two villages in western Mosul on Wednesday, while clashing with Islamic State militants in a recently recaptured area. Maj. Adnan Mostafa, from the army’s 9th division, was quoted by Bas News website saying the forces recaptured Bawabat al-Sham (Syria Gate) and al-Rihani, thus completing a siege around the town […]

  Hassan Ali Kheyre, 49, has been appointed as Somalia’s prime minister. PHOTO | AFP Sources in Mogadishu say that while the president was obliged to appoint a Hawiye as the prime minister as per the 4.5 power-sharing formula, the lobbying and the pressure from both Abgal and the Habargidir forced him to choose someone […]

More than 6.2 million people in need of urgent humanitarian aid, including nearly three million who are going hungry. There are worries that the drought is exacerbating the country’s on-going humanitarian crisis [Karel Prinsloo/UNICEF] Somalia’s new leader has declared a national disaster for a prolonged drought that has forced about half of the country’s population […]

Russia’s adversaries in the U.S. Congress are preparing an “economic blockade” against Russia, by pushing a bill that would prevent President Trump from easing sanctions against Russia, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in a statement Tuesday. “They are going out of their way to trample out any hope of improving our relations,” Ryabkov said, […]

US President Donald Trump is expected to retreat from his campaign promise to rip up a nuclear deal signed by Iran and the P5+1 group of countries, including the US, the UK, France, Russia, and China plus Germany in 2015, says an analyst. “Despite President Trump’s campaign promises in which he called the Iran nuclear […]

Salimata was always told she should be proud to come from a family of wife beaters. “You’re the daughter of a woman whose husband broke her hands. Your grandmother’s legs were fractured by her husband. You must be loved,” Salimata said, citing her mother’s words. The 19-year-old woman from Mauritania’s Soninké ethnic group, married to […]

TEHRAN – The Iranian navy wrapped the last phase of a weeks-long naval drill on Tuesday, launching an advanced torpedo dubbed “Valfajr” following successful test-firing of a marine cruise missile the day before. Footage put out by the navy forces showed the torpedo, fired from a submarine, blowing up a relict ship in Iran’s territorial waters […]