Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

News of the ministerial appointment of an Al-Shabaab co-founder and spokesperson, Mukhtar Robow, by Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre is welcome news. The move looks well calculated and should be seen as an olive branch to the extremists of Al-Shabaab with the message that should they wish to return to constitutionalism and the rule […]

Japanese scholars blamed Japan and the US for escalating situation across Taiwan Straits and slammed the Japanese government for having no regard for the safety of people in Okinawa amid the rising regional tension by failing to refute US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “egregious mistake” of visiting Taiwan island and blatantly interfering in the Taiwan […]

The Ukrainian military has engaged two command-and-control posts of the Russian 76th Airborne Assault Division and 49th Army in Chornobaivka. That’s according to Operational Command South, Ukrinform reports. Also, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the command and observation post of the enemy battalion tactical group in Bruskinske and the area where weapons and […]

In Zaporizhzhia Region, law enforcement officers have documented the damage caused to the infrastructure of a local joint-stock company and wheat plantations by the enemy shelling. The relevant statement was made by the National Police of Ukraine in Zaporizhzhia Region, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. According to the police, Russian troops have been attacking Zaporizhzhia Region for […]

The third phase of Russia’s war on Ukraine is coming. The first, the Kremlin’s brazen blitzkrieg in late February that culminated in the Battle of Kyiv, failed. The months-long Battle of Donbas in Ukraine’s east making up the second phase has gotten bogged down, with Russia having barely enough strength to complete the region’s capture. […]

Former Al-Shabaab group co-founder and spokesperson Mukhtar Robow sits among colleagues after he was named as the minister in charge of religion by Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre in Mogadishu, Somalia August 2, 2022. Image: Reuters Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre on Tuesday named a co-founder and spokesman of the Al-Shabaab as minister for […]

An attack on a prisoner of war camp in eastern Ukraine last week killed at least 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war, including fighters from Ukraine’s Azov Regiment who surrendered to Russian forces in the port city of Mariupol in May. The aftermath of the explosions at Olenivka that killed Ukrainian prisoners..Vadim Belozertsev / TASS Details […]

Turkey’s Energy and Natural Resources Ministry on Tuesday said it was seeking to resolve a dispute between the parties involved in the construction of a $20 billion nuclear power plant by Russia’s state-run nuclear energy firm Rosatom in Akkuyu, southern Turkey. The site of the fourth reactor of Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, in Mersin, southern […]

Today, it is impossible to predict when and how this Russian–Ukrainian war will end or what Ukraine’s victory will amount to. However, we can clearly formulate our goals and point out some factors signaling Ukraine’s future victory. Unsplash In my opinion, Ukraine’s real goal is not just Russia’s military defeat and the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity to its 1991 […]

TEHRAN- Deputy head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) stated on Saturday that the Strategic Action Plan approved by the Iranian parliament led to production of uranium enriched to 60 percent purity and manufacturing of IR6 centrifuges. Pejman Shirmardi stated that the AEOI’s successes are the negotiating team’s winning card and the Western […]