The helicopter pilot is worried. Any more than 20 minutes in this shattered frontline village and Somalia's Al-Shabaab ...

We drive west out of Mogadishu, Somalia, in a convoy of three African Union armored personnel carriers, mounted with three heavy machine guns. No building seems untouched by bullet holes; many have ...

Pirates off the coast of Somalia have successfully hijacked a commercial vessel for the first time in 18 months, raising fears of a resurgence in armed attacks.