Somali schools should stop using “un-Islamic” textbooks distributed by the United Nations, a spokesman for the Islamist group al-Shabab has said. Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage urged Somalis not to send their children to schools which use such...

At least 24 people were killed in fighting that pitted Islamist insurgents against government forces and African Union peacekeepers in Somalia’s capital Friday, witnesses and medical staff said. Residents were hiding in their homes as mortars...