Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

Johan Gustafsson, a Swede who was kidnapped in Mali more than five years ago, has been released. “It is with great pleasure that I can announce that Johan Gustafsson has been released and can return to Sweden. Johan’s situation has touched many of us and extensive efforts have been made to get him released,” said […]

Image captionThe original ban in January provoked mass protests at American airports US President Donald Trump has welcomed a Supreme Court ruling allowing his travel ban to be partly reinstated as a “victory for our national security”. America’s highest court also granted a White House request allowing part of its refugee ban to go into […]

Warmbier ‘typical of a mindset of a lot of the young, white, rich, clueless males who come into my classes,’ Dettwyler had posted A University of Delaware professor who caused outrage on social media and elsewhere by criticizing U.S. college student Otto Warmbier—who died after being held prisoner Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia student […]

The New York Times used a full page in this week’s paper to print out every lie President Donald Trump has publicly told since taking office just over five months ago. The list contains Trump’s contradictions on a slew of topics, like the Iraq War, NATO, the administration’s controversial travel ban, the crowd size at […]

A US warship struck by a Philippines container ship in Japanese waters failed to respond to warning signals or take action before the collision took place, according to a report from the The Philippines ship ACX Crystal signaled to the USS Fitzgerald with flashing lights after the US warship The U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi government forces took over a major area in western Mosul’s Old City on Monday, hours after the Islamic State militants launched a series of suicide attacks. The Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell said the army’s Counter-Terrorism Service forces took over a first section of al-Farouq, the closest area to the Grand Nuri […]

Violent Somali immigrant Abdi Yusuf, who is set to receive compensation from the British government for being “unlawfully detained” whilst awaiting deportation, was jailed in June for beating a woman. Forty-one-year-old Yusuf, who has a history of violent assault, had been detained following a previous jail term because he was considered at high risk of […]

Fighters of so-called Islamic State (IS) have launched counter-attacks as they come under growing pressure from Iraqi forces in Mosul. IS deployed large numbers of suicide bombers in different parts of the northern Iraqi city but the affected areas were quickly brought under control, Iraqi officials say. IS has now been squeezed into a square […]

Nine people have been found dead while rescue workers continued searching for 28 missing persons after a tourist ship carrying 170 sank in one of Colombia’s most popular tourist hotspots, the rescue coordinator told local media. The three-floor ship El Almirante, sank earlier on Sunday in the Guatape water reservoir, one of Colombia’s top tourist […]

Police suspect two fires at an asylum centre near Ystad last week to have been started deliberately, but have so far not made any arrests. The first of the two fires, on Wednesday, resulted in the evacuation of 35 asylum seekers to a conference centre just outside of the town, reports Svenska Dagbladet. Firefighters battle […]