Mortar Shells Greet Ugandan Peacekeepers in Somalia
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 6 -- More than a dozen mortar shells slammed into Mogadishu's airport Tuesday shortly after the first major contingent of Ugandan peacekeepers landed there, and a deadly gun battle ensued as authorities searched nearby houses for suspects.
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Mortar bombs were fired at Somali government troops and Ethiopian soldiers in Mogadishu on Friday, Deputy Defense Minister Salad Ali Jelle said.
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A mortar round hit a site where Iraqis were handing over their weapons today, shortly before a visit by Ayad Allawi.
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Gunmen fired mortars at the Somali president's house on Sunday, hours after the country's new prime minister arrived in Mogadishu for the first time since he was sworn in last November, a presidential aide said.
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Mortar bombs killed at least nine people in the Somali capital Mogadishu's busy Bakara Market on Thursday in the latest attack blamed on Islamist rebels, witnesses said.
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A mother and her three children are among 12 dead after mortars are fired into the Somali capital, witnesses say.
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Four mortar explosions rocked the Somali capital Friday, wounding six people &#151; including two children &#151; a day after an advance team of African peacekeepers arrived in the country, witnesses said.
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A first contingent of 100 peacekeepers from Burundi deployed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, hours after fighting between Islamist rebels and government forces killed at least four people.
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Insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles attacked an Ethiopian army base in northern Mogadishu, triggering a deadly nighttime clash that sent stray mortar rounds crashing into homes, residents and witnesses said Sunday.
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The U.N. Security Council authorized an African Union peacekeeping mission for Somalia for six months on Tuesday as mortar attacks pounded the capital and the northeast African country spiraled further into chaos.
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Two mortar shells were fired onto Jewish settlements in Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip Tuesday evening. No one was wounded and no damage was recorded.
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Mortar bombs hit several parts of Mogadishu before dawn on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people in one of the fiercest bombardments since an Islamist movement was chased from Somalia's capital last month.
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Residents of the town housing Somalia's interim government stocked up with provisions on Friday as troops tested weaponry ahead of a feared attack by rival Islamists in the Horn of Africa nation.
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KISMAYU, Somalia  - An explosion wounded at least 20 people at a ceremony in Somalia on Sunday to welcome senior military commanders to the southern port of Kismayu, a  witness said.
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Five mortar bombs struck northern Mogadishu on Monday, killing at least three people, wounding several others and flattening homes in the Somali capital's latest outbreak of post-war violence, witnesses said.
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Ugandan soldiers landed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, the first African Union peacekeepers to arrive in the city where the interim government and its Ethiopian allies face almost daily guerrilla attacks.
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The Ugandan vanguard of an African peacekeeping force intended to help Somalia's interim government tighten its tenuous grip on the anarchic nation flew into the country on Thursday, witnesses said.