Mortars kill 6 civilians near Somali peace talks
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Mortar bombs fired by suspected Islamist insurgents missed the venue of a major reconciliation meeting in Somalia but killed six civilians including at least five children, residents said on Thursday.
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At least six people die in fighting as Somalia's transitional government takes control of Baidoa airport.
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At least six civilians were killed in separate incidents across Sri lanka's embattled northeast, the defence ministry here said.
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More than 1,700 civilians were killed and 2,000 wounded in Somalia during the past year, a local human rights organization said Saturday.
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Mortar bombs struck a refugee camp and residential area in Mogadishu on Thursday, killing one person and wounding at least five in the latest in a string of near-daily attacks in Somalia's capital, residents said.
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A fresh mortar battle between guerrillas and Somali forces killed at least three people in the capital Mogadishu on Monday as the government set up a new rapid reaction force to respond to a wave of attacks.
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A barrage of mortar fire Thursday ended a brief period of relative calm in Baghdad, killing at least one civilian and wounding more than a dozen, while insurgents continued
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- Six Islamist fighters, including foreigners from Western countries, were killed in U.S. air strikes and battles with local forces in northern Somalia, a regional official said on Sunday.
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Heavy fighting between police and insurgents Tuesday killed six civilians and a policeman in Mogadishu as the United Nations warned of a looming humanitarian crisis in war-ruined Somalia.
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BAGHDAD -- A barrage of mortar fire yesterday ended a brief period of relative calm in Baghdad, killing at least one civilian and wounding more than a dozen, while insurgents continued a ruthlessly efficient campaign against Iraqi police forces and politicians cooperating with the US mission in Iraq.
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Four mortar explosions rocked the Somali capital Friday, wounding six people &#151; including two children &#151; a day after an advance team of African peacekeepers arrived in the country, witnesses said.
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A mortar strike in Somalia killed eight members of a family at a refugee camp on Sunday in the latest bloodshed of fighting between Islamist-led rebels and country's interim government, witnesses said.
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Heavy fighting killed at least six people in Mogadishu on Saturday as Ethiopian troops clashed with Islamist-led insurgents in the worst battles for weeks.
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A mortar slammed into a home in Somalia's restive capital early Monday, killing a father and his 6-year-old son as they slept and wounding four people, witnesses said.
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Ongoing clashes in the capital left nearly 300 Somalis dead and hundreds more wounded last month, a local human rights group said Saturday.
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Six civilians were killed when Ugandan  soldiers opened fire on a Congolese passenger boat on Lake  Albert on Monday, in the latest border flare up between the  Great Lakes neighbors, U.N. officials said on Tuesday.
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Grenade and mortar attacks killed three children on Saturday in the latest post-war violence in the Somali capital Mogadishu, residents said.