Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

US Defense Secretary James Mattis said in a televised interview this week that an Iranian plot to kill the then Saudi ambassador to Washington Adel al-Jubeir was an “operation approved at the highest level.” Jubeir, who now serves as the Saudi foreign minister, had been a target of the failed assassination attempt in 2011. “They […]

The research was released to mark the World No Tobacco Day on May 31 Sharjah: A research released on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day by a team of researchers at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) has shown that alternative tobacco products are not less harmful than cigarettes. The research aimed to dispel […]

Germany’s foreign minister sharply criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday for pursuing national interests while ignoring Western values and putting peace at risk. In some of his toughest criticism of the Trump administration to date, Sigmar Gabriel said major arms deals signed between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia last week demonstrated that the Trump […]

International annual competition of aerobatic skills Aviadarts-2017 will be held in China for the first time. Russia’s 40 crews of advanced combat aircraft, including Tu-22M3 bomber, will participate in the competition. “Aviadarts” is considered to be an Olympic meeting of the military from all over the world. Looking at the results of previous stages of […]

Photo: AFP French President Emmanuel Macron greeted his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the splendour of the Versailles palace outside Paris on Monday for their first face-to-face talks. Macron and Russian counterpart Putin held their first meeting since the French leader came to office, with differences on Ukraine and Syria in full view. Macron welcomed Putin to […]

In a statement, Lt.Gen.Shaker Jawdat said, “Federal Police troops in al-Zanjili district, north of the Old City, are deploying addition troops toward al-Sihha district in order to gain control on all of the area, amid missile shelling.” “The selling targets IS defenses ahead of advancing,” he said adding that “The drone shelling left 14 militants […]

Swedish police have received reports about scam calls from numbers starting +252. Photo: Mats Schagerström/TT Police in Sweden are warning the public to avoid answering calls from unknown foreign numbers after apparent telephone scammers from Somalia targeted Swedish phones. A host of suspicious calls from numbers starting with the country code +252 were reported to […]

Charlotte Fawell who lost her mother Wendy in the Manchester bombing A survivor of the Manchester bombing has taken in the daughter of her best friend who was killed in the atrocity and has vowed to ‘love her like her own’. Caroline Davies and Wendy Fawell were at Manchester Arena to collect their children who […]

North Korea fired at least one short-range ballistic missile into the East Sea on Monday, said South Korea’s military, in an apparent effort to demonstrate its advanced ballistic missile capability and use it as leverage for potential negotiation over the regime’s nuclear program. The suspected Scud-type missile lifted off at 5:39 a.m. from the North’s […]