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Jun 9, 2023

Black Hawk Down: The Mogadishu Operation

Black Hawk Down, otherwise known as the Battle of Mogadishu was one of the most significant battles of recent military history.

BYJessica Evans

Jun 9, 2023

BYTeam Mighty

Apr 19, 2023

The US military is backing Somalia’s war against the al-Shabaab terror group

Somalia has been in trouble for a long time, long before the events depicted in the 2001 film “Black Hawk…

BYTeam Mighty

Apr 19, 2023

BYMiguel Ortiz

Sep 11, 2022

The Navy SEALs you didn’t see in Black Hawk Down

The Battle of Mogadishu is one of the most infamous and controversial engagements in modern U.S. military history. The battle has been documented in books and film, most notably the 2001 film Black Hawk Down. The film depicts the Rangers, D…

BYMiguel Ortiz

Sep 11, 2022

BYTeam Mighty

Mar 20, 2023

Today in military history: US departs Somalia

On March 25, 1994, the last U.S. troops departed Somalia after an unsuccessful campaign in the divided country. In 1992,…

BYTeam Mighty

Mar 20, 2023

BYBlake Stilwell

Mar 20, 2022

SEAL Team Six overcame the impossible in this perfect rescue op

In January 2012, an area outside the remote town of Gadaado, Somalia briefly erupted with the din of a firefight as commandos entered a compound in the area, killed nearly everyone inside, and made off with their intended target. The locals may not …

BYBlake Stilwell

Mar 20, 2022

BYBlake Stilwell

Feb 28, 2023

This is how AC/DC helped save a POW in Mogadishu

At the end of the movie “Black Hawk Down,” CWO Mike Durant is sitting in a dark room as a POW, as a helicopter flies by overhead. From the passing bird, comes a voice: “Mike Durant, we won’t leave you behind.”

BYBlake Stilwell

Feb 28, 2023

BYBlake Stilwell

Jan 4, 2023

This U.S. Marine went to Somalia and became a warlord

Hussein Farrah Aidid left the United States Marine Corps and attempted to be a warlord like his father, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, who is a central figure in the story of Black Hawk Down. Mohamed Aidid was the leader…

BYBlake Stilwell

Jan 4, 2023

BYStars and Stripes

Apr 29, 2020

Marine dog is honored for combat valor

Bass, a Belgian Malinois, served more than six years in Marine Corps special operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia. During his time in Iraq, Bass conducted more than 350 explosive detections with his handler, Staff Sgt. Alex Schnell. On…

BYStars and Stripes

Apr 29, 2020

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

Why the US just built a new missile that doesn’t explode

For almost two decades, drone strikes have been the hassle-free, war crime tolerant way to sever the heads of any kind of terror cells operating against the United States in the war on terror. There’s just one big problem with that: Hellfire missil…

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

BYRadio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Apr 29, 2020

UN wants to know who supplied that massive rifle shipment

UN inspectors are examining more than 2,500 AK-47 rifles and other guns seized by the crew of a U.S. destroyer off the coast of Yemen to determine whether the weapons originated in Iran or Somalia. U.S. authorities said they invited the UN ins…

BYRadio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Apr 29, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Feb 5, 2020

A Green Beret was killed fighting terrorists in Somalia

At least one US special forces soldier was killed and four US service members were wounded after an enemy attack in Jubaland, Somalia, according to a statem…

BYBusiness Insider

Feb 5, 2020

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 2, 2018

This is how Osama bin Laden trained Somalis in the “Black Hawk Down” incident

In 1997, CNN’s Peter Arnett, Peter Bergen, and news photographer Peter Jouvenal interviewed Osama bin Laden at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan. They spent little more than an hour with the man who would become the world’s most wanted terro…

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 2, 2018

BYAssociated Press

Mar 31, 2018

Al-Shabab attracts ISIS to Somalia with increased beheadings

The Islamic State group’s growing presence in Somalia could become a “significant threat” if it attracts fighters fleeing collapsing strongholds in Syria and Iraq, experts say, and already it seems to be influencing local al-Shabab extrem…

BYAssociated Press

Mar 31, 2018