For several years, online rumors have alleged that U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's father, Nur Omar Mohamed, committed war crimes as a military officer in Somalia before immigrating to the U.S. as a refugee.
Somalia has been mired in chaos since the fall of the military regime of president Siad Barre in 1991, which was followed by civil war and the rise of the Al-Shabaab Islamist militant group. The ...