The Order of the Somali Star is the highest distinction award for military gallantry in Somalia. The Order of the Somali Star has been awarded to members...

exemplary service to the nation. The title of Order of the Somali Star can be awarded for military gallantry in the service of Somalia. It can be awarded...

The Order of the Yugoslav Star was the highest national order of merit awarded in Yugoslavia. It was divided into four classes. The highest class, the...

Movement (SPM), the Somali Southern National Movement (SSNM) and Somali Democratic Movement (SDM). The organization professed the goal of working toward...

Piracy off the coast of Somalia occurs in the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel, and Somali Sea, in Somali territorial waters and other surrounding places...

This list of highest military decorations is an index to articles that describe the highest military decoration awarded by each country in the world. Note...

list of highest civilian awards is an index to articles that describe the highest civilian award given by each country in the world. State order State...

Order of Merit Somalia: Collar of the Order of the Somali Star South Korea: First Class of the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit Spain: Collar of the...

The Somali people (Somali: Soomaalida, Osmanya: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒆𐒖, Wadaad: سٝومَالِدْاَ‎) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa who share...

James of the Sword) (Portugal, 10 August 1959) 1st Class of the Order of Suvorov (USSR, 1959) Grand Cross of the Order of the Somali Star (Somalia, 1960)...

Somalia, between forces of the United States—supported by UNOSOM II—against the forces of the Somali National Alliance (SNA) and armed irregulars of south...

contacts with the local Somali pirates and to interview them. He gets increasingly interested in studying an organization of Somali pirates. In order to fulfill...

The Somali civil war (2009–present) is the ongoing phase of the Somali civil war which is concentrated in southern and central Somalia. It began in late...

el-Gamasy. Honor Military Star. 1952 Liberation decoration. 1958 United Republic decoration. Order of the Somali Star (First Class) The October War (Cairo,...

The Somali Armed Forces are the military forces of the Federal Republic of Somalia. Headed by the president as commander-in-chief, they are constitutionally...

With Jamaica". The News and Courier. 17 October 1977. p. 1. The Office of the Prime Minister. "Order of Merit (OM)". Archived from the original on 22...

(Order of the White Lion, Polonia Restituta, and Karl Marx). The most notable awards the Soviet Order of Victory, the Japanese Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum...

289 of 21 November 1949. The Somali Youth League (the main force in the country driving for independence) fiercely opposed the transfer of Somalia back...

The Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, also known as the Ethiopian occupation of Somalia or the Ethiopian intervention in the Somali Civil War, was an armed...

was granted the title of Aryamehr ('Light of the Aryans') by an extraordinary session of the joint Houses of Parliament. Imperial State of Iran 1938 –...

The Somali Republic (Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliyeed; Italian: Repubblica Somala; Arabic: الجمهورية الصومالية, romanized: Al-Jumhūriyyat aṣ-Ṣūmālīyyah)...

ancient times Mogadishu was part of the Somali city-states that engaged in a lucrative trade network connecting Somali merchants with Phoenicia, Ptolemic...

The Somalia affair was a 1993 Canadian military scandal, prompted by the beating to death of Shidane Arone, a Somali teenager, at the hands of two Canadian...

Mohamed Omar Osman (born 1940) (Somali: Maxamad Cumar Cismaan) is a Somali admiral, war hero and the incumbent chairman of the Ogaden National Liberation Front...

The 1964 Ethiopian–Somali Border War, also known as the First Ogaden War marked the first military conflict between the newly established Somali Republic...

March 1993 until March 1995, following the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991. UNOSOM II carried on from the transitory United States-controlled (UN-sanctioned)...

Somali major general, politician and revolutionary who served as the third president of Somalia from 21 October 1969 to 26 January 1991. Barre, the commander...

based in Somalia and active elsewhere in East Africa. It is actively involved in the ongoing Somali Civil War and incorporates elements of Somali nationalism...

a Somali soldier was assassinated in a market in Afgoye. During 8 and 9 June al-Shebaab attacks on a joint Somali-Kenyan-U.S. base 2 km north of the town...

collapse of the Somali Democratic Republic in early 1991, a new phenomenon emerged – the establishment of Sharia courts to impose law and order on the volatile...