Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

Trump recently gave U.S. forces greater freedom to strike an al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia.

The new leader is nicknamed Cheese after his father's love for the dairy product.

Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo beat the incumbent in two rounds of voting by Somali lawmakers.

Around 330 lawmakers will choose the country's next president at Mogadishu's airport on Wednesday.

The Al-Qaeda affiliate regularly purges its ranks of alleged informants and ISIS sympathizers.

The al-Qaeda-linked group claimed to have held the soldier since September 2015.

The troubled country is holding crucial parliamentary and presidential elections.

Mohamud is running for re-election this fall.

The country's president will be elected by MPs, not by a popular vote.

ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack in Somalia for the first time in April.

If elected, Fadumo Dayib would want talks with al-Shabab.

The Al-Qaeda aligned group is expected to increase attacks ahead Somali elections in 2016

Al-Shabab, clan rivalries and a breakaway state all pose challenges to Somalia's plan for democracy.

A Somali government official said that 15 militants were killed in the mysterious attack.

Kenya refuses to give a death toll for the Al-Shabab attack on an African Union base in Somalia.

The Somali militants claimed to have killed more than 100 soldiers in the attack on El Adde.