The death toll from a truck bombing in Somalia's capital is now at least 78, and the president blames the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group.

Kenya's police chief says a roadside bomb has killed 11 officers on the country's southern border with Somalia.

The Arab League is calling for the United Nations Security Council to take measures to force Turkey to halt its military offensive in Syria and 'immediately' withdraw its forces from the Arab country.

The U.S. military says it has conducted an airstrike targeting an al-Shabaab militant in the vicinity of Qunyo Barrow, Somalia, killing a militant.

The United States military's Africa Command says that it has carried out six airstrikes in the Gandarshe area of Somalia.

At least 14 people were killed when gunmen stormed a hotel in Somalia's capital and took an unknown number of hotel guests hostage, police and medical workers said Saturday, before security forces hunted down the attackers and ended an hours-long assault that began with an explosives-laden vehicle blowing up at the hotel gate.

Officials at Somalia's civil aviation authority say they have found no evidence so far of a criminal act in an explosion in an airliner which took off from Mogadishu's airport and returned for an emergency landing.

Officials at Somalia's civil aviation authority say they have found no evidence so far of a criminal act in an explosion in an airliner which took off from Mogadishu's airport and returned for an emergency landing.

The Kenyan military says it launched air strikes against Islamic militants in Somalia following an extremist attack on a Kenyan college that killed 148 people.