Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

U.S. Africa Command has released airstrike video highlighting the impact of the airstrikes conducted on Dec. 10 that killed eight (8) al-Shabaab explosives experts in the vicinity of Jilib, Somalia. “Al-Shabaab’s continuous attacks demonstrate its willingness to accept high numbers of civilian casualties while advancing operations aimed at undermining security across Somalia,” said U.S. Air […]

SEOUL – The outgoing U.S. point man on North Korea admitted Thursday that the Trump administration had not achieved what it sought with Kim Jong Un, but blamed Pyongyang for squandering the opportunity for progress. Talks over the North’s nuclear arsenal have been stalled since early last year when a summit in Hanoi between President […]

 The U.S. called for the immediate withdrawal of Eritrean troops from neighboring Ethiopia’s Tigray region, following “credible” reports of their involvement in a civil conflict.   A general view of Kassala Mountains near the border with Eritrea, eastern Sudan, Nov. 20, 2020. , AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty The reports relate to an assault that Ethiopian Prime […]

TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif responded to a poem recited by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “wrongly” claiming that Iranian provinces of Azerbaijan were part of the Republic of Azerbaijan. “Pres. Erdogan was not informed that what he ill-recited in Baku refers to the forcible separation of areas north of Aras from Iranian […]

 Ankara considers it disrespectful for the United States to impose sanctions on NATO ally Turkey for the purchase of Russian S-400 missile defense systems, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Friday, as he said he had worked smoothly with presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama and will wait patiently to see what happens. President Recep Tayyip […]

As Biden sees it, trusting his instincts and tuning out the naysayers is a big reason why he’s going to be the next Commander in Chief. They said he was too old, too unsteady, too boring. That his pledge to restore the “soul of the nation” felt like antiquated hokum at a moment when Hurricane Trump […]

A Ministry of State Security agent was recently fired on by border patrol troops as he was trying to smuggle tobacco in Yongchon County, on the Sino-North Korean border in North Pyongan Province. A source in North Pyongan Province told Daily NK on Monday that in late November, a Ministry of State Security agent was […]

 In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted two (2) airstrikes targeting al-Shabaab explosives experts in the vicinity of Jilib, Somalia, Dec. 10. Photo by U.S. AFRICA COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS We will continue to apply pressure to the al-Shabaab network. They continue to undermine Somali security, and need to be contained and […]

BAKU — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, for a two-day visit with officials of Ankara’s close ally. Azerbaijan’s foreign minister said ahead of the visit, which started on December 9, that Erdogan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will discuss bilateral relations and the situation around Azerbaijan’s breakaway region […]

ADDIS ABEBA – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta have called for peace and co-existence among the border communities as they inaugurate a One-Stop Border Post in Moyale.They said the communities have for years continued to coexist, as brothers and sisters. “What we need Prime Minister, therefore, is to encourage them to […]