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Somalia president escapes surprise attack
Somalia’s president escaped an opportunistic attack by Islamic militants Wednesday as deadly fighting erupted in the center of Mogadishu, officials said.
Ambulance offers hope in war-torn Somalia
Chaos and death on the streets of Mogadishu: unfortunately, it’s nothing new in the Somali capital.
Radical Somali leader defends peacekeepers’ killings
A radical Islamist leader in Somalia said Sunday that a suicide attack that killed 21 African Union peacekeepers was the right thing to do. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys said Thursday’s attack was meant to defend Islam
21 killed in suicide attack on African Union base in Somalia
A brazen, daylight suicide bombing on the African Union’s peacekeeping mission in Somalia’s capital has killed at least 21 people, mostly peacekeepers, the mission said Friday. Suicide bombers, disguised in two U.N.-marked vehicles, Thursday rammed through the security gate of the mission’s headquarters, which is attached to Mogadishu’s airport
9 killed in mortar attack by Somali insurgents
At least nine people were killed in Somalia’s war-torn capital Mogadishu when mortars slammed into a home for disabled veterans, according to journalists and witnesses.
Somali forces battling al Qaeda-linked militants
Somali forces clashed with al Qaeda-linked militants in the capital city Friday after the militants attacked an African Union peacekeeping station, according to an independent media report.
Woman killed, fetus cut from body
Police are searching for someone who killed a woman in her Massachusetts apartment and cut an 8-month-old fetus from her body.
Somalis fleeing to Yemen to escape violence
Fighting in the Somali capital of Mogadishu is forcing thousands of people to "risk their lives to cross the Gulf of Aden and seek asylum in Yemen," the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday
Somalia urges Somali-Americans not to join rebels
Amid the worsening conflict in his country, Somalia’s president made a plea for Somalis living in the United States to stop sending their young men to fight.