Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

Mourners gathered at a Kyiv church on Sunday, Jan. 29, to honor Andrew Bagshaw, one of two British volunteers who died as they were evacuating civilians from fierce fighting in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. An Orthodox priest serves for Andrew Bagshaw, 47, British voluntary worker, who was killed in Donetsk region, during the memorial service in […]

Over 300 Islamic clerics from Somalia and the diaspora have issued a fatwa denouncing religious extremism in all its forms and urged the public to support the ongoing Federal Government of Somalia (FGS)–led offensive against Al-Shabaab and other terror groups. The clerics issued the edict on Thursday in the capital, Mogadishu, after four days of […]

A13-year-old boy opened fire and wounded two people in east Jerusalem on Saturday, officials said, only hours after a gunman had killed seven outside a synagogue in the deadliest attack in the city since 2008. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS Israeli security personnel work at a scene where a suspected incident of shooting attack took place, just […]

They don’t act like members of an elite unit operating not just Ukraine’s but the war’s most powerful ground weapon. In conversation, they mostly come off as typical Ukrainian soldiers. Ukrainian servicemen of an artillery unit reload as they fire towards Russian positions on the outskirts of Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine on December 30, 2022. Sameer […]

U.S. special operations forces have killed a senior Islamic State group official and 10 other terrorist operatives in remote northern Somalia, the Biden administration announced Thursday.   A map of Somalia. The operation carried out on Wednesday targeted Bilal al-Sudani, a key financial facilitator for the global terrorist organization, in a mountainous cave complex. “This […]

A bipartisan trio of senators have called for the U.S. to bolster military support for Ukraine even more by sending ATCAMS long-range artillery systems and F-16 fighter jets. Photo:Wikipedia Welcoming President Biden’s recent announcement about the delivery of Abrams heavy tanks, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island), Lindsey Graham (R-Tennessee), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) said even […]

Russia on Thursday 26 Jan. launched yet another wave of cruise missile and kamikaze drone strikes at Ukraine’s civilian power grid, killing eleven people but losing most of weapons to dense Ukrainian air defenses. Workers repair power line following a Russian missile strike on the industrial zone of Kyiv on January 26, 2023, amid Russian […]

Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre met Wednesday with a delegation from the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), headed by the Regional Director for East and Southern Africa of Unicef Mohamed Fall. According to the Somali National News Agency, the Prime Minister and the Unicef delegation discussed important issues regarding the charitable activities of the […]

After weeks of indecision and “dithering”, Germany has given the go-ahead for the export of Leopard 2 heavy tanks to Ukraine. The move was announced on Wednesday 25. Jan and follows intense pressure on Berlin from its European and U.S. allies. Berlin will provide a company of 14 Leopard 2 A6 tanks from the Bundeswehr […]

At least six people were killed on Sunday in an attack by Al-Shabaab militants at the mayor’s office in central Mogadishu, police said. Police officers take up positions outside of the Mayor’s office where an ongoing gun battle erupted following a reported explosion, in Mogadishu, on January 22, 2023.    A suicide bomber set off […]