Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid died last week after a battle with rival forces. In a forthcoming book, former colonel DAVID H. HACKWORTH, Vietnam hero and Newsweek contributing editor, ...

Mohammed Hussein Farah Aidid is still getting used to his transformation from warlord to Somalia’s Deputy Prime Minister. But his assessment of the precarious hold the new government has on Somalia, ...

Some 30 years after the event of the battle for Mogadishu that changed US foreign policy forever, Mohammed Abdi Elmi launched a book in the Somali capital titled The Battle of Mogadishu. A witness to ...

Twas not what the poets would call a famous victory. The Somali warlord and his men had plenty of warning. At 1:30 a.m., searchlights bathed Mohamed Farah Aidid's compound; only four hours later did ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- If Somali warlord Hussein Mohamed Aidid is to be believed, Somalia is crawling with terrorists. But Aidid, a onetime U.S. Marine whose father was America's most wanted Somali ...

Hussein Mohammed Aidid is still getting used to his transformation from warlord to Somalia’s Deputy Prime Minister. But his assessment of the precarious hold the new government has on Somalia, after ...