The Christmas Day strikes followed three consecutive days of strikes in roughly the same area of northern Somalia.

U.S. President Donald Trump has called Somali immigrants living in the United States “garbage” and wants them to leave.

Somalia history and rise reveal a forgotten African power that ruled oceans, resisted empire, collapsed, and is rebuilding today.

The wave of attacks comes as American forces bombed ISIS militants on Christmas Day in Nigeria, the first operation in the country.

In 2025, the U.S. military conducted 100 airstrikes in Somalia—the most intensive campaign in nearly two decades—escalating operations against ISIS-Somalia and al-Shabaab and signaling a strategic shift from previous restraint.

According to Save the Children in Somalia, three horrific acts of violence against children occurred in the country during October and November - the murder of four young children through arson in Hargeisa, the violent rape of an 11-year-old girl in Puntland and the murder of a mother and her three daughters in central Somalia.

With the exception of votes in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland and the breakaway region of Somaliland, Somalia last held direct elections in 1969.

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