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Somali capital, Mogadishu, came under the control of Ethiopian-backed Somalis troops yesterday. The combined force of Somalis government and Ethiopia troops and tanks has finally captured Mogadishu. After the military pressure, the Somalia’s...
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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...
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A Somali official and a clan elder say gunmen have released two European aid workers after holding them for nine days in southwestern Somalia.
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Armed fighters attacked two African Union peacekeeping bases in Somalia’s capital, and a witness said he saw the bodies of three civilians killed.
made popular Apr 26 2009
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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.
made popular Apr 26 2009
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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...
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The Mogadishu police chief says a mortar attack on the Somali parliament has missed the building and hit a residential neighborhood.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Somali parliamentarians unanimously endorsed a proposal to implement Islamic law in the Horn of Africa nation.
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Gunmen seized four U.N. workers in southern Somalia on Monday, a U.N. spokeswoman said, the latest in a series of attacks on aid workers in the war-ravaged Horn of...
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A United Nations official says gunmen have kidnapped three aid workers in southern Somalia.
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Clashes between rival Islamist militias have killed at least 14 people in central Somalia, residents said Sunday. The fighting is the latest sign of deep divisions...
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The Somali cabinet has voted to use Islamic law as the basis of the country’s legal system in a bid to win popular support and undercut an Islamic insurgency.
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Four youths were publicly whipped in the Somali capital on Monday after an Islamic court found them guilty of gang rape in a demonstration of the government’s...
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A Somali official says the U.S. Navy has handed over nine suspected pirates to authorities in northern Somalia.
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The government and an Islamic insurgent group have reached a cease-fire deal, Somalia’s new president said on Saturday, days after dozens of civilians were killed...
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An artillery shell killed two schoolchildren in the Somali capital on Wednesday during the second day of fighting between AU peacekeepers and Islamist insurgents,...
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An artillery shell fell on a school in southern Mogadishu Wednesday, killing two children, as civilians fled to safer areas of the Somali capital following deadly...
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In the recent clashes, Ethiopian fighter jets have bombarded two of the major airports at Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. It’s a big blow to the Islamic forces...
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Islamist militias and government forces in Somalia are at loggerheads and as the fighting goes fiercer, civil war seems inevitable. Clashes have ignited the region from...
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