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According to Necrometrics, around 500,000 people are estimated to have been killed in Somalia since the start of the civil war in 1991. [56] The Armed Conflict Location & Event Dataset estimates that 3,300 people were killed during the conflict in 2012, [208] with the number of fatalities dropping slightly in 2013 to 3,150. [208]
In 1892, the Italian explorer Luigi Robecchi Bricchetti for the first time labeled as Somalia the region in the Horn of Africa referred to as Benadir.The area was at the time under the joint control of the Somali Geledi Sultanate (who, also holding sway over the Shebelle region in the interior, was at the height of its power) and the Omani Sultan of Zanzibar.
Somali Civil War (2009–present) Part of the Somali Civil War, conflicts in the Horn of Africa, the Ethiopian–Somali conflict, war against the Islamic State, Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa, and Global War on Terrorism: Approximate [a] map of the current phase of the Somali Civil War (updated December 2024) [dubious – discuss]
US forces conducted 35 airstrikes in Somalia during 2017. January 7; Self defense strikes were conducted against al-Shabaab militants in Gaduud, but there were no fatalities. May 5; A US Navy Seal was killed and three others wounded including a Somali-American interpreter during a raid in Barii. Four to eight al-Shabaab militants were killed in ...
The Pentagon said Friday it is pulling most U.S. troops out of Somalia on President Donald Trump's orders, continuing a post-election push by Trump to shrink U.S. involvement in counterterrorism ...
This is a 2025 timeline of events in the Somali Civil War (2009–present). January. 5 January – Atleast 10 Al-Shabaab militants were killed in an airstrike in ...
The US, UN and Somalia experts say a key part of IS's financial infrastructure - the al-Karrar office - is based in Puntland, disbursing funds and expertise to other branches of the group in ...
The Somaliland campaign, also called the Anglo-Somali War or the Dervish rebellion, was a series of military expeditions that took place between 1900 and 1920 in modern-day Somaliland. The British were assisted in their offensives by the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy .