American policy towards Somalia since 2001

The American policy towards Somalia is considered one of the most important areas of research at the level of the Horn of Africa, due to the strategic importance of Somalia and the security developments that Somalia has suffered since the collapse of the Somali state in 1991. The forefront of American interest is that many terrorists have resorted to Somalia. Indeed, terrorism is spreading from inside Somalia to outside its territory, which contributed to the instability of Somalia, which was clearly reflected in the instability of the Horn of Africa region. It must be emphasized that the US policy has many goals. Which it seeks to achieve in Somalia, which are political, economic, security and humanitarian goals, and adopted for this purpose a set of means to achieve them, which in turn varied in the diversity of these goals.