Heavy fighting erupts in Mogadishu
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Insurgents attacked the Somali interim government and their Ethiopian allies and battled for nearly an hour on Tuesday, shortly after mortar attacks were aimed at Ugandan peacekeepers who had just landed in Mogadishu.
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Somali Islamist fighters and Ethiopian troops are facing one another in two Somali villages on the border with Ethiopia, raising fears of clashes, an Islamist leader and residents said on Friday.
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Chadian troops fight a fierce battle with rebels in the east of the country with reports of heavy casualties.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - Security forces fought and surrounded Somali kidnappers on Wednesday hours after they abducted a Spanish and an Argentine aid worker with the medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF).
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The arrival of Ugandan peacekeepers in Mogadishu on Tuesday was marked by some of the heaviest fighting in weeks, highlighting the huge task facing the African Union force in Somalia.
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A large explosion struck Mogadishu on Monday near the venue where a national reconciliation conference is due to be held next month, witnesses said.
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Three people are killed in the heaviest explosions in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, this year.
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Insurgents unleashed two attacks against the Somali government and its foreign allies in Mogadishu on Tuesday, just hours after Ugandan peacekeepers assigned to tame the anarchic city landed.
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Heavy fighting erupted in northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday as government troops tried to take Tamil rebel-held territory, the defence ministry said, reporting scores of guerrillas killed or wounded.
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Hamas and Fatah forces fought a lengthy gun battle on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip near the strategic Karni commercial crossing, the most serious flare-up in factional fighting in two weeks.
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Gunmen fired rockets near Mogadishu's airport on Wednesday, witnesses said, apparently heeding an Islamist call to fight African Union peacekeepers arriving to help the interim government restore order.
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There is heavy fighting in eastern Chad two days after a state of emergency was declared.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist fighters in the   Somali port city of Kismayo opened fire on Monday on residents   burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to protest against   the Islamist takeover of the city hours before.
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Mortars were fired at Somali government troops and Ethiopian soldiers in the chaotic capital Mogadishu on Friday, Deputy Defense Minister Salad Ali Jelle said.
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Insurgents attacked the airport in Mogadishu on Tuesday and fought a heavy battle with government and Ethiopian troops as Ugandan peacekeepers arrived in Somalia's lawless capital.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The first peacekeepers to arrive in Somalia's capital in more than 10 years were met with a surge of violence yesterday, as mortar rounds hit the airport during a welcoming ceremony and a deadly battle broke out on the city's crumbling streets.
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Fighting killed at least four people in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday as Islamist-led rebels attacked government troops and their Ethiopian allies.