American naval forces handed Somali authorities the bodies of three suspected pirates on Thursday, officials said, after U.S. snipers shot the trio earlier this month during a standoff over an American hostage.

A Somali official and a clan elder say gunmen have released two European aid workers after holding them for nine days in southwestern Somalia.

Armed fighters attacked two African Union peacekeeping bases in Somalia’s capital, and a witness said he saw the bodies of three civilians killed.

An official says insurgents have attacked two African Union peacekeepers’ bases in the Somali capital, and a witness says at least three people were killed.

Mortars fired toward Somalia’s parliament missed the building but hit a police unit inside the compound as well as a residential neighborhood, killing at least seven people, according to witnesses and officials.

The Mogadishu police chief says a mortar attack on the Somali parliament has missed the building and hit a residential neighborhood.

A hardline opposition leader appeared in Somalia’s capital Friday for the first time in almost two years and said he was ruling out peace talks with the government unless African Union peacekeepers leave the country.

A hard-line Somali opposition leader accused of having al-Qaida links arrived Thursday in Mogadishu for the first time in two years, officials said.

At home in central Somalia, Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse frequented a dusty, outdoor cinema after school, watched Bollywood films dubbed into his native Somali and, his mother says, “was wise beyond his age.”

About 25 masked gunmen armed with machine guns kidnapped two foreign aid workers in central Somalia on Sunday, an aid worker and a witness said.