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On October 26, 2016, fighters aligned with the Islamic State (ISIS) captured the small port town of Qandala in Puntland's Bari region.This was the first town ISIS had taken control of in Somalia, the first notable expansion of their influence beyond their usual mountainous hideouts.
The Islamic State – Somalia Province [note 1] or Abnaa ul-Calipha is an Islamic State affiliate that primarily operates in the mountainous areas of Puntland, and which has also claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks throughout the rest of Somalia.
The Puntland Security Force was formed in 1998 by the Puntland government. [2] [1]In 2002, amid concerns that al-Qaeda elements were operating in East Africa, the PSF was formally established as part of the Puntland Intelligence Security (PIS), which combined the PSF and the Puntland Intelligence Agency (PIA), with assistance from the Puntland government and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland said on Sunday it has withdrawn from the country's federal system and will govern itself independently until constitutional amendments passed by the ...
The Qandala campaign began when the Islamic State in Somalia (ISS) attacked and captured the town of Qandala in Bari, Puntland, Somalia on 26 October 2016. This takeover resulted in the displacement of over 25,700 civilians and an eventual counter-offensive by the Puntland Security Force, which succeeded in driving ISS from Qandala on 7 December, and thereafter government units continued to ...
2019 – Thirteen, of which five occurred in Puntland. 2020 – Twenty reported executions. Five were undertaken by the Somali government. The semi-autonomous region of Puntland executed three; in the unrecognised independent Somaliland region, twelve were executed. 2021 – Total 22 executions, twenty-one in Puntland and one in Jubaland.
Following the outbreak of the civil war in 1991, a homegrown constitutional conference was held in Garowe in 1998 over a period of three months. Attended by the area's political elite, traditional elders (Issims), members of the business community, intellectuals and other civil society representatives, the autonomous Puntland State of Somalia was subsequently officially established so as to ...
The inaccurate posts claim the new flag closely resembled that of Puntland state, a region of northeastern Somalia that was declared autonomous in 1998. Minnesota is home to the largest Somali ...