[6] A general survey of the Somaliland protectorate 1944-1950, a book published in 1951, refers to the combined topography of the Golis and Wogr mountains as the Golis-Wogr Range.

[9]: 1 According to British Somaliland and Sokotra published in 1919, a large number of Zebu cattle were raised around the Golis Mountains for the purpose of taking Ghee.

[10] Especially after it was discovered that gold could be extracted near the village of Milho on the border of the Bari and Sanaag regions, pro-Islamic State militias and others made this location their base of operations,[11] and the term "Golis Mountains" is often used to refer to the mountain range near the border between the Bari and Sanaag regions.

In the article North-Eastern British Somaliland written in 1931, it distinguishes between the "Golis Range" west of Mount Shimbiris and the Al Hills to the east.

[14] In the 1996 book Constructing colonial hegemony in the Somaliland protectorate, 1941-1960, the Golis Mountains are described as "for three hudred miles runs parallel to the coastal plain",[15]: 36  this corresponds to Sheikh to Bosaso in a straight line.

[20] In 2017, a large quantity of heavy ammunition was removed from African Union Mission to Somalia and Somali National Army bases.

[11] In 2019, According to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, U.S. forces conducted six airstrikes against ISIS and one against al-Shabaab in the Golis Mountains, killing a total of 32 people.

[20] In March 2022, Puntland forces kill several al-Shabaab soldiers in the Dhagah-dhaabur and Habar-hagoogan hills of the Golis range.