Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

At least 112 people have been killed and more than 500 wounded in fierce fighting in the town of Lasanod in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland, a medical official said Tuesday   MOGADISHU, Somalia Abdimajid Hussein Sugulle, the director-general of a public hospital in Lasanod, provided the latest figures to Anadolu by phone from the […]

Months of warnings from the head of the Western military alliance had hardened into certainty that Russian President Vladimir Putin would launch his all-out attack on Ukraine that day. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds a press conference at the end of a two-day meeting of the alliance’s Defence ministers at the NATO headquarters in […]

Feb. 24, 2022, was supposed to bring the existence of a 40-million European nation to an end. Long before the dawn of light, Ukrainian cities were set alight in blazes of burning airfields and the scattering of artillery impacts. Ukrainian servicemen walk next to destroyed Russian tanks and armored personnel carriers in Dmytrivka village, west […]

LONDON – flydubai, the hybrid low-cost arm of Emirates, will launch a daily service to Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu Aden Adde International Airport (MGQ) as of 9 March 2023 Anna Zvereva from Tallinn, Estonia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons With lots of expatriates from Somalia residing in Dubai, the carrier hopes to then double its frequency […]

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday vowed to press onward with Russia’s war in Ukraine and railed against the West for a litany of wrongdoings in his first state-of-the-nation address since invading Ukraine one year ago.   Addressing lawmakers from both houses of parliament, Putin relied on familiar talking points as he pledged to continue Russia’s […]

The Presidency’s Directorate of Communications has shut down a series of claims of mistreatment and allegations about the ongoing search and rescue efforts across Türkiye’s southeastern region following the twin earthquakes that caused widespread loss of life and massive infrastructural damage. Men sit and talk in front of destroyed properties in the aftermath of the […]

This is a developing story. Please check back for further updates. (Last updated at  12:50 p.m. KST on Feb. 20, 2023 with additional quotes from Kim Yo Jong and ROK military’s response. North Korea fires a rocket on Feb. 20, 2023 | Image: KCTV, edited by NK News North Korea fired two “tactical nuclear” rockets […]

US President Joe Biden arrived in Kyiv in a surprise visit on Monday, strolling through the center of the capital with President Zelensky as air raid sirens rang out across Ukraine. Biden said a new military aid package worth $500 million to be announced on Tuesday will include more ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems. “One year later, […]

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday accused Russia of committing “crimes against humanity” in Ukraine and Russian forces of conducting “widespread and systemic” attacks on the country’s civilian population. Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris speaks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023.AP Photo/Michael Probst/TASS She made the […]

Clashes have forced more than 185,000 people to flee their homes in a contested border town in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland, the UN’s emergency response agency said. More than 60,000 others have fled to Ethiopia’s Somali region to escape the violence [Getty/archive] Somaliland, which has claimed independence from Somalia since 1991, but has never been […]