Some 54,000 Somali refugees resettled in the United States - most of them outside Minnesota - during Barack Obama's two-term ...

Six years later, Minnesota’s Fifth District is ushering in more firsts as Republican challenger, the Iraqi-born journalist-turned-politician Dalia al-Aqidi, makes this congressional race the first to ...

Riverside, a neighborhood near the University of Minnesota with a large Somali population, barely half of eligible voters ...

US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar easily defeated her Republican opponent ... The Muslim-American congresswoman is the first Somali-born member of the US Congress. When she was first elected, she ...

Ilhan Omar is projected to win reelection for ... The last time a Republican candidate carried the district was in 1960. Omar is a Somali refugee, who made history in 2016 when she became the ...

A member of the progressive "squad" criticized the Harris-Walz campaign for its GOP outreach that included advertising the ...

Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) sailed to victory on Tuesday ... over the thorny topic of Israel-Palestine relations. Omar is a Somali refugee, and one of just three Muslims in Congress, and her harsh ...

Possibly the second-most recognizable squad member, American-Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar, 42, is facing Republican candidate Dalia al-Aqidi in the general election. The Minnesota congresswoman became ...

The war in Gaza forced her to condemn both the White House and the Democratic ticket for its handling of the conflict, while ...

The Democratic Party’s Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar – the first two Muslim women to serve in the United States Congress – have won re-election to the US House of Representatives. Tlaib, who ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who has long called for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and has urged the administration of ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) defeated Republican challenger Dalia al-Aqidi, winning another term representing Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. Omar claimed 76.4% of the vote compared to al ...