Israel expands ties with the breakaway territory as Somalia challenges its motives and war intensifies in Yemen.


Faisal Ali is a reporter at aljazeera.com.
Israel expands ties with the breakaway territory as Somalia challenges its motives and war intensifies in Yemen.

Somalia hails the UN mission’s closure as a milestone amid political tensions and cuts to international support.

PM Abiy Ahmed makes announcement during a Moscow summit as Ethiopia battles armed groups in Tigray and Amhara.

Families recount deaths, injuries and displacement as Trump accelerates US strikes against armed groups in Somalia.

Egyptian, Eritrean, Somali and Sudanese leaders also call for talks to end the civil war in Sudan.

Armed groups clashed with government forces across northern Ethiopia as fears mount of regional spillover.

Former adversaries say they will settle differences as fears grow of expanding war in Ethiopia.

These were the updates on the US-Israel war on Iran from Saturday, September 19, 2026.
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The number of arrivals has reached 3,400 after a 48-hour surge, as Djibouti prepares for more.

Piracy is surging back off Somalia’s coast, though not yet at the scale of its 2011 peak.
