Kasmaal  Independent Somali news and analysis website .

NAIROBI, Kenya — A police contingent loyal to a top opposition leader in Somalia took over Parliament for several hours on Wednesday, pushing a growing political rift to the brink of armed confrontation. Parliamentary police officers loyal to Mohamed Osman Jawari, the Parliament speaker, disrupted a no-confidence vote against him early Wednesday. The police lined […]

US President Donald Trump’s remarks appeared to contradict the rhetoric on Syria from other top US officials [REUTERS/Carlos Barria [Daylife] Trump reiterates necessity for US troops to leave Syria unless Riyadh pays for continuation of US presence there. US President Donald Trump has said that Saudi Arabia might have to pay if it wants continuing US […]

Italy’s political parties are meeting the country’s president to talk about forming a government on Wednesday and Thursday, after a general election left Italy with a hung parliament. Here’s a reminder of what’s at stake, and what to expect over the next few days and weeks. The story so far The general election on March 4th left […]

Security forces discovered a huge sum of cash, gold and silver in the office of two Daesh-linked terrorist suspects detained in an anti-terror operation in Istanbul, reports said Wednesday. The suspects were reportedly nabbed in simultaneous anti-terror operations in Istanbul’s Fatih, Avcılar, Ümraniye, Kadıköy and Çatalca districts on March 16. Police discovered 8.5 kilograms of […]

Police officers congregate in a parking lot near YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, Calif. on Tuesday, April 3, 2018, after a shooting took place. (Randy Vazquez/Bay Area News Group) Police officers congregate in a parking lot near YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, Calif. on Tuesday, April 3, 2018, after a shooting took place. (Randy Vazquez/Bay […]

President Erdoğan and Russian President Putin (R) launch the construction Turkey’s first nuclear power plant, Ankara, April 3. The construction of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant started with a grand ceremony, with the participation of the Turkish and Russian presidents, marking the launch of a new nuclear sector in Turkey as well as a historical […]

MOSCOW, April 3. /TASS/. Two sea vessels have delivered the first regimental set of S-400 Triumf long-range anti-aircraft missile systems to China. The missing equipment that had been earlier damaged while being shipped by a third vessel will be sent to the customer in the summer, a military-diplomatic source told TASS. “Two vessels have delivered […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday said Turkey and Russia have finalized the deal for the purchase of S-400 missile defense systems, adding that Russia has proved its sincerity by accepting for an early delivery. Speaking at a news conference with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Erdoğan also touched on other agreements with Moscow and […]

File photo of a street in Vicenza: FedericoLovat/Flickr  An American couple were found dead in their home in the Veneto region of Italy on Monday, following an apparent murder-suicide. The man, aged 44, and his wife, 40, were both former soldiers who had previously worked at the US military base in Vicenza, west of Venice. […]

An Afghan boy receives treatment at a hospital in Kunduz on April 3, 2018, a day after an airstrike hit a school in a Taliban stronghold. (AFP Photo) The number of civilian casualties has risen to more than 50 following an Afghan air force attack on an alleged Taliban gathering in northern Afghanistan’s Kunduz province. […]