Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

While Turkey’s long-term and wide-ranging activities in Somalia including development and infrastructure projects as well as investments in education and health continue, Ankara has also lent a humanitarian hand to the drought-stricken country through the Turkish Red Crescent by delivering food aid to hundreds of families The Turkish Red Crescent has recently picked up pace […]

A federal appeals court has dealt another blow to President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban targeting six-Muslim majority countries. The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that blocks the Republican’s administration from temporarily suspending new visas for people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. US President Donald Trump’s […]

Iran has built a third underground ballistic missile production factory and will keep developing its missile programme, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted a senior commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard as saying. The development is likely to fuel tensions with the United States in a week when President Donald Trump, on his first foreign […]

President Trump began a busy day in Brussels Thursday meeting with European Union leaders and then newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron, with trade and security topping Mr. Trump’s agenda. “We have a lot to discuss, including terrorism and other things,” Mr. Trump said before meeting with Mr. Macron at the U.S. ambassador’s residence. U.S. […]

Kang Kyung-wha, President Moon Jae-in’s pick for foreign minister, said Thursday humanitarian aid to North Korea should come with no strings attached. Still, she called for taking “stern measures” against Pyongyang if it continues with its military provocations. Her view is in line with Moon’s pursuit of sanctions and dialogue simultaneously in resolving the North […]

German police said they arrested nine drug trafficking suspects, including four suspected Islamist militants, in early morning raids Wednesday. Police arrested four “Islamists considered capable of resorting to violence”, in the operation to dismantle a drug trafficking ring, said police and the Berlin public prosecutor’s office in a statement. File Photo: DPA They also seized […]

Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to use his US presidency to promote peace around the world after what he depicted as an inspirational meeting with an initially grim-faced Pope Francis. Meeting face-to-face for the first time, the two leaders sidestepped profound differences over a string of issues ranging from the environment to the plight of migrants […]

Two bombs have gone off near a bus station in eastern Jakarta, leaving a police officer and a suspected bomber dead, Indonesian police say. The two blasts occurred approximately five minutes apart in Kampung Melayu on Wednesday evening, a police statement said. It added that several people, including police officers, were injured in the bombings. […]

Inger Støjberg, Denmark’s minister for immigration, may have been warned that an instruction to separate young refugee couples was illegal before issuing the order. The minister gave an instruction in February 2016 to forcibly separate all asylum-seeking couples including individuals under 18 years of age, regardless of whether the couples had children. The Ministry of […]

social worker within the British Muslim society told U.K. broadcaster BBC that Muslims in the country have repeatedly reported Manchester bomber Salman Abedi to the anti-terror hotline for his terrorist tendencies, but police failed to take precautions. In the piece published in the BBC’s Turkey service on Wednesday, it was reported that many individuals from […]