MNA Since four years ago, a host of Iranian fishermen have been held in captivity by pirates and terrorists in Somlia. While Iranian fishermen from southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan are among the most successful fishermen in the region, they have been challenged seriously since 2008 with pirates and terrorists based in ...

IRNA A number of imprisoned sailors who had been arrested in late 2017 on charges of trespassing into Iran's waters were released and returned to Iran on Thursday. Following the efforts by the Iranian foreign ministry and the country's embassy in Kenya, 17 sailors who had illegally entered Somalia's territorial waters in October 2017 and were sentenced ...

IFP - Irans Intelligence Ministry has shed some light on a covert operation in Somalia that recently led to the release of four Iranian fishermen held captive by pirates. Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said on Thursday that his ministrys agentssecured the fishermens releasethrough a long process and despite tight security controls by ...

IFP- Four Iranian fishermen taken captive by pirates in international waters near Somalia have been released by Irans intelligence forces. Iranian intelligence agents secured the fishermens release through a long process and despite tight security controls by the pirates. The Iranian forces managed to set the captives free and bring them back ...

MNA Irans Navy Commander Khanzadi deemed Somalia piracy as a kind of terrorism formed in 2007 by proxy in a bid to undermine the Islamic Republics economy. NavyCommander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadimade the remark on Sunday in a welcoming ceremony for the return of the 49th fleet after 67 days of voyage on open seas, adding there was a tremendous ...

American Herald Tribune- In February 2017,Deutsche Wellenotified its readers that "aid organizations have warned that alarm bells are ringing in Somalia due to drought" under the title of "Hunger Alarm in Somalia." South Sudan, Nigeria, and war-torn Yemen are suffering from hunger, too."More than 20 million people in southern Sudan, Somalia, Yemen ...

American Herald Tribune | THOMAS C. MOUNTAIN : According to just released information sourced from the UNs Food andAgriculture Organization (FAO) and the FSNAU between October 2015 andApril 2016, a period of only six months, upwards of 400,000 Somalis,two thirds of whom were children, died of starvation. And the famine, if anything, has gotten worse ...

FNA- Iran's foreign ministry condemned Somalian coastal guards' shooting and killing of the captain of an Iranian fishing ship in the Indian Ocean. "The Iranian foreign ministry is seriously probing into the situation of fishers," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Wednesday. Noting that Iran has protested at the Somalian government ...

IRNA Deputy Governor General of Sistan and Balochestan province for security and disciplinary affairs said on Tuesday that arrest of Konarak Port sailors by Somalia in trans-coastal waters is illegal and Foreign Ministry is following up the case. Ali Asghar Mir-Shekari said that on September 27 a barge in class of fishery with 18 crews received permission ...

MNA - Cindy Vesterggard, a Senior Associate with the Nuclear Safeguards rejected a few conservative media outlets report on a letter by the Somali FM that Al-Shabaab was mining UOC for transport to Iran. last week, a few conservative media outlets including Fox News and VOA ran a story on a letter by the Somali FM that Al-Shabaab was mining UOC ...

Alwaght - Over than 20 million people are at risk from famine in war torn Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and the northeast of Nigeria, the UN warned on Wednesday. The Security Council officially declared for the first time that the threat was directly linked to the armed conflicts raging in the afflicted areas. The Security Council notes the devastating ...

IFP- According to a report by IFP, a bombing attack at the entrance of Somalias biggest port, in its capital city, Mogadishu, left 29 people dead on Sunday. Later in the day, the al-Shabab terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack. In a statement on Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi condemned the terrorist attack ...

At least 12 people have reportedly been killed after two explosions rocked an area outside the African Union (AU) peacekeeping base in Somalias capital, Mogadishu. According to Somali police, a bomber fist set off an explosives-laden car at the entrance of the AU base near the international airport in Mogadishu on Tuesday morning. A second bomber ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Al-Shabab militants kidnapped 14 crew members of an Iranian fishing boat Wednesday off the coast of Somalia, seizing them as their vessel washed ashore, Iranian state television and residents said. The extremists detained the fishermen after the vessel drifted into the militants' stronghold, Yasin Maalin, a resident of ...

[caption id="attachment_153259" align="alignright" width="231"] Iran considering prisoner swap with Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Somalia and Iraq.[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian official unveiled plans for the exchange of prisoners with Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Somalia and Iraq. Irans Deputy Minister of Justice Seyed Ali Raeesolsadati told ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The EU and two international aid agencies said Wednesday they have kicked off a new environmental program aimed at tackling food insecurity in Puntland in northern Somalia. In a joint statement issued in Nairobi, the EU, CARE International and Africa Development Solutions (ADS) said the four- year initiative aims to reduce ...

[caption id="attachment_29783" align="alignright" width="150"] US Secretary of State John Kerry[/caption] US Secretary of State John Kerry has defended Washingtons recent military operations in Libya and Somalia for targeting terrorists. "We hope that this makes clear that the United States of America will never stop in its effort to hold those accountable ...

  Two police officers have been killed in an attack carried out by unknown gunmen on a police station in Kenyas northern town of Mandera, near Somalia. Regional police commander Charlton Mureithi said three people were also wounded in the attack, which was carried out at about 3:00 a.m. local time on Thursday. Witnesses said the gunmen ...

[caption id="attachment_52723" align="alignright" width="180"] Civilians flee from the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013.[/caption] The Somali prime minister has vowed to finish al-Shabab, which carried out a lethal attack against a shopping mall in Kenya. "We have over 17,000 AMISOM(African Union Mission in Somalia) troops ...

Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta announces the end of the Nairobi mall standoff after six attackers were killed and 11 others arrested by Kenyan security forces. Kenyatta said a deadly siege on a shopping center in the capital Nairobi is over, adding security forces have defeated and ashamed the attackers. Our losses are immense, Kenyatta said in ...