Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

Juan Guaido, president of Venezuela’s National Assembly, holds a copy of the constitution during a rally against Maduro’s government on Wednesday [Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters] Venezuela‘s embattled leader Nicolas Madurosevered relations with the United States and ordered American diplomats out of the country, accusing Washington of orchestrating a coup d’etat after an opposition leader publicly announced he was now […]

File Photo: Egyptian troops in Sinai (Photo: Reuters)  Egyptian troops and security forces have killed 59 terrorists in recent operations, the army said in a statement on Tuesday. In various raids in Sinai and the Suez Canal cities, army forces killed 44 terrorists who were found in possession of rifles and explosive devices, the statement […]

Three Michigan men were apprehended at a Grand Rapids airport and have been charged with supporting Islamic State militants, including one man allegedly headed overseas to fight with them, federal authorities announced Tuesday. Muse Abdikadir Muse, 20, was arrested Monday at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids during security screening for the first […]

Russian Defence Ministry officials show off the new Russia’s 9M729 missile at the military Patriot park outside Moscow on January 23, 2019. (AFP Photo) Russian Defence Ministry officials show off the new Russia’s 9M729 missile at the military Patriot park outside Moscow on January 23, 2019. (AFP Photo) Russia’s military has denied that its Iskander-M […]

President Mnangagwa President Mnangagwa yesterday denounced violence, saying while it is everyone’s right to protest, any demonstration should be done peacefully and within the law. The President, who was away in Eurasia when MDC-Alliance and its affiliates unleashed an orgy of violence on the public, said the nation should be united and begin a national […]

The leaders of Japan and Russia are sitting together in the Kremlin discussing major diplomatic issues between their countries. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is hoping to move closer to a solution on the issue of Russian-held islands claimed by Japan as well as a peace treaty. The countries never signed one after World War Two […]

AA Photo via Kerch.FM/EPA Up to 20 are presumed dead after two ships caught fire in the Kerch Strait near Crimea on Monday, authorities said, with a rescue operation still underway. The fire broke out when one vessel was transferring fuel to the other on Monday, driving both crews to jump overboard. The accident occurred […]

The body of Vladimir Lenin lies in the Mausoleum. © Reuters The body of Vladimir Lenin should be left in the mausoleum on the Red Square as there are much more important problems for Russia to solve, the lawmakers said on the 95th anniversary since the death of the 1917 Revolution leader. Lenin died on […]

The protection of allied forces who fought and died battling the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, or ISIS) in Syria must be guaranteed, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in a phone conversation. Pompeo and Cavusoglu talked on Monday as the NATO allies try to reach an agreement over the fate of US-backed, Kurdish-led fighters, […]

A woman collects garbages from a dump yard near a tannery at Hazaribagh along the polluted Buriganga river in Dhaka June 5, 2014. (Reuters Photo) The world’s 26 richest people own the same wealth as the poorest half of humanity, Oxfam said Monday, urging governments to hike taxes on the wealthy to fight soaring inequality. […]