Islamic militiamen attack Somali rivals
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Islamic militiamen rooting out resistance in the capital battled supporters of a secular warlord in door-to-door fighting Sunday that left 20 people dead and 40 wounded, witnesses and doctors said.
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Mortar shells slammed into the Somali capital late Monday, killing at least 12 people Â including a mother and her three children Â and wounding dozens in an increasingly ferocious Islamic insurgency, witnesses said.
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Fighting raged for a second day in the Somali capital on Sunday as Ethiopian troops clashed with Islamist-led rebels in the heaviest battles for weeks.
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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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Some of the heaviest fighting in months hits Somalia's Mogadishu as Ethiopian troops battle local insurgents.
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The Islamic militia that controls much of southern Somalia dispatched thousands of troops Sunday to within nine miles of the border with Ethiopia, heightening fears that fighting would break out between the two sides.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist fighters opened fire   in the Somali port city of Kismayo on Monday toward residents   burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to protest against   the Islamist takeover of their city hours before.
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Islamist faction's fighters launch new attacks.
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Hundreds of Ethiopian troops arrived to protect Somalia's government Friday as witnesses said a powerful Islamic militia massed nearby, raising concerns of clashes between the two forces.
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At least 13 people were killed and 75 wounded in heavy fighting in the Somali capital on Thursday in the latest confrontation between Ethiopian troops and Islamist-led insurgents, witnesses said.
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Government forces backed by Ethiopian troops clashed for a second day with Islamic militiamen near a village in southern Somalia, officials said Saturday.
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Thousands of Islamic militants have surrounded the only town Somalia's internationally recognized government controls, the prime minister said Tuesday as a top Islamic official promised to attack within a week unless troops from neighboring Ethiopia leave.
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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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A wave of pre-dawn mortar attacks pounded Mogadishu and killed at least 16 people on Tuesday in one of the most brutal bombardments since an Islamist movement was forced out of the Somali capital last month.
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Islamists and opposition leaders are set to join forces to try to overthrow Somalia's transitional government.
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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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Several people were killed in fighting at a mosque run by radical clerics who have challenged the government.