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Capital and the largest city of Somalia
Sen. John Kennedy is widely reported in partisan outlets to have publicly presented damaging documents about Rep. Ilhan Omar in November 2025, including claims of diverted funds and problematic person...
Ilhan Omar is the youngest of seven children; available reporting says she has six siblings but she has not publicly released their full names . Multiple sources identify her father as Nur Omar Mohame...
Available reporting in the provided sources describes multiple viral November 2025 episodes in which Senator John Kennedy criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar with short, provocative lines — versions include “I...
Ilhan Omar was born in Mogadishu in 1982 as the youngest of seven children; her mother died when Omar was about two and she was raised by her father and grandfather before the family fled the outbreak...
Ilhan Omar is a U.S. citizen who was born in Somalia and immigrated to the United States as a refugee; multiple profiles and her campaign materials describe her as a naturalized citizen . Claims and c...
Ilhan Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, fled the Somali civil war with her family in 1991, spent about four years in a Kenyan refugee camp, and was resettled to the United States in 1995 as a refug...
Ilhan Omar was born in Mogadishu in 1982, lost her mother at age two, and left Somalia with her family at about age eight when civil war broke out; they spent roughly four years in a Kenyan refugee ca...
Ilhan Omar’s family left Somalia in the early 1990s as the Siad Barre regime collapsed and clan-based fighting and lawlessness spread; Omar has said armed gunmen attacked her family’s compound and the...
Ilhan Abdullahi Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 4, 1982, according to multiple official and reputable profiles including the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress and th...
Available reporting in the supplied collection consists almost entirely of partisan or gossip-style reposts claiming Senator John Kennedy delivered dramatic floor lines aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar and th...
Ilhan Omar’s family fled Mogadishu because of the collapse of order and rising violence in Somalia’s civil war after President Siad Barre’s government fell in 1991; Omar has said the war “started when...
Ilhan Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp before arriving in the United States in 1995; she became a U.S. citizen in 2000 and later moved to Minneapolis ...
Ilhan Omar was born in Mogadishu in 1982, fled Somalia’s civil war with her family as a child, spent about four years in a Kenyan refugee camp, and arrived in the United States in 1995; her family’s r...
Primary-document verification of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s stated birthplace (Mogadishu, Somalia) and birthdate (October 4, 1982) is limited in public reporting because Omar is a refugee who, according to mul...
Available reporting in the provided results describes a dramatic exchange in November 2025 in which Senator John Neely Kennedy attacked Representative Ilhan Omar during a hearing or chamber appearance...
Ilhan Omar is widely reported in reputable sources as a Muslim and is listed among the small number of Muslim members of Congress; Pew Research counts her as one of four Muslims in the U.S. House for ...
Ilhan Omar’s family left Mogadishu during the outbreak of Somalia’s civil war in 1991 when she was about eight; they spent roughly four years in a Kenyan refugee camp before being cleared for resettle...
Multiple news outlets, fact‑checkers and reference works report Ilhan Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 4, 1982 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000 . Longstanding allegations t...
Available reporting and official bios say Ilhan Omar was born in Somalia, fled to a Kenyan refugee camp, arrived in the U.S. in March 1995 as a refugee, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000; ...
Ilhan Omar was born in Somalia; the most widely cited official biographical records list her birth year as 1982 and her birthplace as Mogadishu, Somalia (often shown as October 4, 1982) . Some reputab...