Sources: Press TV
The Somali Armed Forces claim to have recaptured the port town of Harardhere from Al-Shabaab militants. According to a Puntland officer, Somali forces allied with regional militias also recaptured the town of El Dhere. 2023-01-16
Protests continue for a fifth day in Las Anod, Somaliland, with protesters demanding that the city be governed by Puntland instead of by Somaliland. Twenty people are killed in clashes between protestors and security forces. 2023-01-2
Al-Shabaab militants storm a military base in Puntland. The subsequent battle with the Somali military leaves at least 70 people dead. Somali officials called the attack the deadliest in the country in years. 2017-06-8
Somali pirates hijack an Indian cargo ship off the coast of Puntland. 2017-04-3
A militant group affiliated with ISIL seizes the coastal town of Qandala in the autonomous Puntland region. 2016-10-26
A suicide bomber in Somalia’s Puntland region detonates while hugging Saeed Ali, the treasurer of Galkayo, killing him and several police officers guarding him. Islamic militant group Al-Shabaab claims responsibility. 2016-03-31
At least 100 people are killed in a tropical cyclone in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region. 2013-11-11
Troops in Somalia's region of Puntland free 22 hostages seized by pirates nearly three years ago. 2012-12-23
A court in Somalia imprisons for six years and fines $500 radio journalist Abdifatah Jama Mire for the broadcast of an interview with a militia leader in Puntland. 2010-08-14
Fighting between Somali government troops and local police has killed at least 13 people in Mogadishu and gunmen killed a judiciary official of the semi-autonomous Puntland region in the Hamarjajab district. 2010-06-14