Heavy shelling in Somali capital
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At least 10 people are killed in the heaviest fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu this year.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist fighters opened fire   in the direction of protesters in Somalia's southern port of   Kismayo on Monday, wounding at least two, witnesses said.
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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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A roadside bomb blast tore through a convoy carrying Ethiopian troops in a central Somali town on Wednesday, but it was not immediately clear if anyone was killed, witnesses said.
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A U.S. warship shelled a mountainous area where suspected militants were hiding, Somali officials said.
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Somali government fighters and Ethiopian troops attack Islamist positions, an Islamist leader says.
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At least two people die in Somalia's capital in a raid on a house by government forces targeting insurgents.
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The killings in Mogadishu, Somalia's bloodstained capital, are not going away. Nearly every day, the city endures street battles, roadside bombs, showers of bullets.
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A grenade was thrown at a Somali government minister's house overnight and mortar bombs hit areas near Mogadishu's port in the latest spate of post-war violence, witnesses said on Tuesday.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, Feb. 20 -- Mortar rounds and rockets hit Somalia's capital early Tuesday in a series of attacks that killed 15 people and wounded more than 40, doctors and witnesses said.
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The Somali Shabeelle web site today reported under its "Breaking news" strapline that "two explosions have taken place near the SOS hospital in Mogadishu". It says it currently has no details concerning any damage or casualties.  (c) 2007 BBC Monitoring Newsfile.
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Mortar attacks in a residential area and on a hotel in the Somali capital killed five people and injured 10 on Saturday, witnesses said, a day after a previously unknown pro-Islamist group warned it would step up violence.
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Somali government troops and their Ethiopian allies used tanks and heavy artillery to battle gunmen who struck a military base at the former defense ministry in Mogadishu on Friday.
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KISMAAYO, Somalia, Sept. 25 -- Islamic fighters in this Somali port city opened fire Monday toward residents who were burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to protest the takeover of the city hours earlier by the Islamic Courts militia.
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A mortar bomb struck a residential area of eastern Mogadishu on Thursday, wounding a young girl in the latest in a string of almost daily attacks in the chaotic seaside capital, residents said.
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The latest bombardment was the heaviest in months and shook the entire city, locals said. There was no immediate. children and non-fighting age men to flee, but said they would arrest any man under 45 trying to enter or leave the city.
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Two explosions rocked the Somali town of Baidoa on Monday, killing four people and wounding six in the only town controlled by the country's virtually powerless government, witnesses and officials said.