Shooting at captured Somali port
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Somali Islamist fighters open fire at protesters in the port city of Kismayo, angered by its occupation.
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A Somali lawmaker was fatally shot outside a mosque Friday, the latest blow to a virtually powerless administration that has watched helplessly as Islamic militants have taken over much of the country.
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Somali gunmen shot dead a senior  government official in a troubled Mogadishu district and a  teenager died when munitions left behind by African Union  peacekeepers exploded, officials said on Tuesday.
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Sudanese officials said Tuesday they were investigating a shooting attack on a vehicle carrying at least one diplomat in the capital
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A U.S. Navy destroyer off the coast of northern Somalia Friday fired on a suspected al Qaeda operative believed to have been involved in the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, sources confirmed to CNN.
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At least two people are reportedly killed during fighting in the Somali capital, as peace talks are due to start.
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Yemeni security forces wounded and arrested a gunman after he opened fire at the U.S. embassy in Sanaa late on Monday, a government official said on Tuesday.
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Assailants fired four rockets at Mogadishu port on Monday in the latest guerrilla-style attack in post-war Somalia, authorities said.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Dozens of Islamist   battlewagons advanced on the strategic Somali port of Kismayo   on Friday in what the interim government termed a violation of   a pact to stop military expansion in Horn of Africa nation.
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Shells are fired at the presidential palace and the venue for peace talks in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
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Somalia's presidential spokesman was shot in the neck while he was stuck in a traffic jam in the latest assassination attempt on a government official in this chaotic nation, authorities said Tuesday.
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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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The seaport in the Somali capital reopened Wednesday for the first time in 11 years, the latest sign that the city's Islamic fundamentalist rulers are trying to restore confidence after more than a decade of anarchy.
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Somali police shot and killed two civilians after attackers hurled a hand grenade at a police station, witnesses said. No officers were hurt.
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Islamic militants fired mortar shells and guns in the Somali capital on Thursday, sparking crossfire with Ethiopian troops and their Somali government allies that killed at least 16 people, witnesses said.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  -- An explosion killed at least 20 people and wounded a hundred more on Tuesday in a northern Somali port where Somali and Ethiopian immigrants begin the dangerous crossing to Yemen, a regional official said.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Fears of regional conflict soared as angry demonstrations against Somalia's radical Islamic militia grew into deadly violence yesterday in a southern port city, and the militia for the first time acknowledged getting help from foreign Muslims.