Sex trafficking ring in Minneapolis busted
VIDEO - An indictment unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Nashville says one of the goals of the gangs was to recruit females under age 18...
Somalian-born K'naan still tied to his homeland
NEW YORK (AP) - The rapper suffers from survival guilt, and he finds it hard to reconcile the life he is living now compared with friends and family still suffering in Somalia...
Somalis scramble to escape fighting in capital
KAKUMA, Kenya (AP) - Fighting in the Somali capital of Mogadishu has killed more than 230 people in the past two weeks, forcing civilians to choose between military barrage or refugee status...
Kenyan police arrest suspect in Uganda bombings
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenya beefed up its security along its porous border with Somalia after al-Shabab claimed responsibility for Sunday's twin blasts in Uganda...
Ugandan toll in World Cup bombings rises to 74
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - The blasts came two days after a commander with the Somali group, al-Shabab, called for militants to attack sites in Uganda and Burundi...
Somalia: Al-Qaida's newest safe-haven
VIDEO - The government is in disarray, breeding a new generation of American-born terrorists...
Somalia's 'face of war' boy dies after operation
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A Somali boy who was horribly disfigured months ago by a stray bullet in Somalia's violent capital has died just days after undergoing reconstructive surgery...
Somali president plans to tour the US
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The newly elected president of Somalia plans a tour of U.S. communities with large Somali populations this fall...
Somali refugee camps are "barely fit for humans"
Hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees are jammed into camps that are "barely fit for humans," with poor sanitation and little access to water and medicine, an international aid agency said...
Missing Somalis in the US: fighters or dupes?
Even the federal prosecutors who charged a 25-year-old Minnesota man with aiding terrorists admit he didn't know he was signing up for jihad when he accepted a free trip to Somalia...
