1+ week, 2+ day ago   (330+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A video circulating on social media this week shows Somalis in the country’s Southwest state setting fire to the Turkish flag while holding aloft the state’s own banner, a striking act of defiance that captures a rapid souring…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (359+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Turkey will move to arrest and exile Somalia’s opposition leaders, including former President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, should they persist in their defiance of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s disputed term extension, a veteran Somali diplomat has warned. Hussein Ali…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago   (278+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s parliament handed its most powerful gavel to a man widely regarded as Ankara’s foremost asset in Mogadishu on Monday, electing Minister of Ports and Maritime Transport Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur as speaker of the House of the People…...

1+ mon, 18+ hour ago   (444+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Former Puntland minister and Somali political commentator Ali Haji Warsame has questioned Turkey’s ability to commercially develop Somalia’s offshore oil resources, arguing that Ankara’s current operations in Somali waters are limited to exploration and fall far short of…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (621+ words) Tehran claims joint missile-and-drone assault on US Navy and Air Force facilities after Washington bombs Iranian coastal targets over tanker attacks in the strait TEHRAN (Somaliguardian) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guard announced on Wednesday that it had struck United States military installations…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (419+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Turkish F-16 fighter jets carried out a series of air strikes against Al-Shabaab targets in southern Somalia on Tuesday, killing about 35 militants and wounding more than 20 others, Somali Defense Ministry said. The strikes, conducted in coordination with the…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (632+ words) According to the report, the proposed military presence would give Israel a strategic foothold near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a vital maritime chokepoint linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden that is often compared in strategic importance to…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (624+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has said Israel’s recognition of Somaliland was not a diplomatic victory for the self-declared republic but a “trap” that could ultimately draw Somalia into a conflict that is neither its own nor in…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (215+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Turkey was behind the toppling of Somalia’s Southwest president, Abdiasis Laftagaren, and his administration in an attempt to loot the country’s natural resources, the prominent Somali senator and professor Abdi Ismail Samatar said on Tuesday. “The key partner…...