Somali Islamists threaten AU peacekeepers
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A Somali Islamist group threatened on Tuesday to fight any peacekeeping troops sent to their country as African leaders struggled to put together an international force for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation.
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Somalia's new president  asks the African Union to send 20,000 peacekeepers to secure the country.
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Militants from Hamas threaten to overrun Gaza security positions belonging to Palestinian rivals Fatah.
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Dissident Somali lawmakers on Friday joined Islamists, who control much of southern Somalia, in accusing Ethiopia of preparing to attack the country and said they were ready for a holy war to defend themselves.
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Somalia's Islamist movement told arch-foe Ethiopia on Tuesday to withdraw its troops from the Horn of Africa nation within a week or face war.
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Somalia's interim government welcomed a U.S. proposal at the U.N. Security Council to deploy east African peacekeepers, but the newly powerful Islamists who have seized control of most of the country rejected it.
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A hitherto unknown Islamist group has threatened to attack U.S.-led troops and American citizens in Iraq if foreign forces do not leave the holy city of Najaf in 48 hours, according to an Internet statement posted on Monday.
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Troops stepped up security across the Somali capital Saturday after Islamists threatened to disrupt a peace conference, saying anyone who takes part "is sentenced to death."
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African nations sending peacekeepers to Somalia should convince Islamists it is not an "invasion force", the UN chief says.
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Sudanese Islamist leaders say they   will take up arms against United Nations peacekeepers if they   deploy to Darfur, and some have warned they will also fight the   Khartoum government if it agrees to the force.
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Hundreds of protesters in Mogadishu threatened to attack African peacekeepers and burned flags of nations supporting the idea on Friday even as international diplomats urged speedy deployment of such a force.
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Somalia's powerful Islamist group dismisses US comments its leadership is dominated by al-Qaeda.
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The prime minister of war-torn Somalia asks for UN peacekeepers to take over from the African mission.
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The breakaway republic of Somaliland says it will retaliate if Somalia's new president poses a threat to its border.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Three battalions of peacekeepers from Uganda and Nigeria will be airlifted as soon as possible into Somalia amid rising violence that threatens the government's grip on power, an African Union official said yesterday.
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Government forces backed by Ethiopian troops reportedly clash with Islamists for a second day in Somalia.
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Somalia's Islamist movement threatened on Tuesday to wage war on Ethiopian troops unless they leave the Horn of Africa nation within seven days.