TEHRAN, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A California State University Northridge student is being held in Iran after being arrested last week after a traffic stop, officials said.

HAFUN, Somalia, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Seven NATO warships patrolling the coast of Somalia are crucial to deterring piracy in the region, Somalia's prime minister said Sunday.

MOGADISHU, Somalia, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- The United Nations is calling a Somali peace deal a good step toward stabilizing the fragile security situation in the country.

MOGADISHU, Somalia, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Eleven Somali Cabinet ministers received large sums of money to resign their positions as part of a political attack on the prime minister, sources allege.

MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 13 (UPI) -- The Transitional Federal Government in Somalia says it has agreed to hold talks with opposition leaders after years of violence have ravaged the country.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Hopes are growing that a new government in Mogadishu may be able to reach a peace deal with the opposition Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Somalia's new leader to speed up drafting a constitution during a meeting of African leaders in Ethiopia.

CAIRO, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Egyptian and British officials recently held a meeting to discuss the developing security crisis in Sudan and Somalia.

BAIDOA, Somalia, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Former Somali Red Crescent officer Nor Hassan Hussein has been appointed the new prime minister of Somalia.