DOD: American and Danish aid workers freed in Somalia - TheDC
Special Operations Forces kill 9 pirates, free 2 workers, suffer no casualties
U.S. government to possibly censor Somali militant Internet use - NYT
‘American officials said they were worried that the Shabab might be using Twitter to reach potential recruits in the West’
UN: Hundreds of thousands face starvation in Somalia - AP
‘We have not yet seen the peak of the crisis’
US: Somalia food crisis one of biggest in decades - AP
Thousands of Somali refugees search for food in surrounding countries as the United States tries to send aid
GOP gets to play the Gitmo card - TheDC
‘The Obama Administration needs to accept that it makes no sense to close Guantanamo Bay’
GOP senators bash Holder's decision to give civilian trial to Somali terrorist - TheDC
Suspect was detained on a U.S. Navy ship and flown to New York this week to be indicted on federal charges
U.S. expands its drone war into Somalia - NYT
The clandestine American military campaign to combat Al Qaeda’s franchise in Yemen is expanding
4 Americans on hijacked yacht dead off Somalia - CBS
The four Americans aboard a yacht hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia are dead
The United States and China vie for influence in the Horn of Africa
East Africa is a national security and foreign policy hot spot for the US.
Somali pirates now employing torture tactics - AP
EU Naval Force commander says pirates now using hijacked ships, human shields
More effective foreign assistance can pay real dividends
Why cutting our foreign aid budget would be a huge mistake.
Somalia rebels threaten US attack - Al Jazeera
The leader of Somalia’s main armed group al-Shabab has threatened to attack the United States if Barack Obama does not embrace Islam
The long road to the Chandlers' release - BBC
A retired English couple, held at gunpoint with no big, multinational shipping company behind them to bail them out, were freed at last after 13 months of stop-start negotiations
How the new Congress can help fight terror
Congress needs to develop an overarching strategy and a clear procedural approach to fighting al Qaeda.
UN: 60,000 Somalis flee fresh fighting - AP
There are already almost 1.5 million displaced people in Somalia, which hasn’t had a functioning government since 1991
Bloodshed over futile government in Somalia - AP
Civilians and soldiers alike fall victim to insurgents’ rage at government
Inviting our own destruction
Somalia is a hotbed of terrorism. So why are we granting Somali immigrants near-automatic asylum?
US Marines storm pirate-held cargo ship - Telegraph
One of the most dramatic high seas confrontations with pirates to protect shipping lanes off lawless Somalia
Somalia attack: 32 die in hotel massacre - AP
Islamist militants wearing Somali military uniforms stormed a hotel favored by lawmakers in the war-battered capital Tuesday, firing indiscriminately and killing 32 people, including six parliamentarians
