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FORT DRUM, N.Y. (Oct. 8, 2015) -- When Detroit native Cory Smith joined the Army in the early 1990s, he knew his life would be different, but he could not have predicted the magnitude of how much it ...

Mogadishu is rising, literally, from the ashes of decades of war. Pavements remain scarred by bullet holes and ruined buildings still line many streets, but the city's cacophony is now one of ...

Once controlled by the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, the port city of Mogadishu is more than just the capital of Somalia — it’s also a symbol of reconstruction in an East African country wracked ...

Mogadishu, Somalia, Jan. 3, 1993: A U.S. Marine guarding the gate to the port in Mogadishu loses his temper with a Somali trucker hauling grain donated by relief organizations. The Marine was upset ...

BALCAD, Somalia, April 3 (UNHCR) - Thousands of people have been flooding into this small town north of Mogadishu saying that life in the Somali capital has become unbearable. They are part of a ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia, October 30 (UNHCR) - A weekend of violence in Mogadishu has set off another wave of displacement from the war-torn Somali capital, sending thousands more civilians from their homes ...