He was a relentlessly optimistic man. Any chance he got, he would talk about Mogadishu's glory years in the 60s and 70s, before the civil war. It was, he'd say, a jewel of a city on Africa's Riviera.

Famine, civil war, Kalashnikovs, despots… We hear the word Mogadishu and immediately images from Black Hawk Down start playing in our minds. That hasn’t been good for the country, and it hasn ...

Just this year, it has assaulted the Maka al Mukamara hotel in Mogadishu and the Asasey Hotel in the southern Somali city of Kismayo. Caleb Weiss is an editor of FDD's Long War Journal and a senior ...

Surviving Black Hawk Down - the official Netflix trailer for its coming docuseries, which goes way back to the heinous Battle ...

The mayor of Somalia's capital Mogadishu has died a week ... Mr Osman, who fled to the UK during the civil war in the 1990s, became a councillor in London before returning in 2008 to help rebuild ...

Netflixs three-part docuseries Surviving Black Hawk Down revisits the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu. Featuring firsthand accounts from both American soldiers and Somali citizens, the series explores the ...

Ethiopia has up to 10,000 troops in Somalia to fight Islamist militants from al Shabaab, but Mogadishu has threatened to expel them if Addis Ababa did not renounce an agreement it reached a year ...