Mortar kills 2 in Somali capital
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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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Two civilians have been killed in the Iraqi capital as violence flares in different parts of Baghdad. Guerrillas fired mortars into eastern Baghdad on Saturday, killing the two civilians, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
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An explosion killed two people and  wounded six on Thursday in the Somali capital Mogadishu,  diplomats based in neighboring Kenya said, adding they believed  the blast had probably been caused by a bomb.
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Unknown assailants fired mortar bombs in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, wounding at least eight people, a police official said, and a witness said two children had been killed.
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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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Five children playing with a landmine in Somalia's capital are killed when it explodes, witnesses say.
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Mortar bombs killed at least nine people in the Somali capital Mogadishu's busy Bakara Market on Thursday in the latest attack blamed on Islamist rebels, witnesses said.
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Fighting between rival militias intensified Thursday in the Somali capital, with battles spread across the city and at least 38 people dead, medical sources and a militia commander said.
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Five mortar bombs struck northern Mogadishu on Monday, killing at least three people, wounding several others and flattening homes in the Somali capital's latest outbreak of post-war violence, witnesses said.
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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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Gunmen threw two grenades at Ethiopian troops guarding a former Islamist base in the latest Iraq-style insurgent attack in the chaotic Somali capital, residents said on Monday.
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Gunmen shot dead five people in two separate attacks in the lawless Somali capital in an escalation of killings ahead of the planned deployment of African Union peacekeepers.
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A bomb blast in the war-wracked Somali capital of Mogadishu killed two school boys and wounded a man on Sunday, the manager of their school said.
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The Somali government on Thursday carried out its first formal executions, killing two suspected Islamist insurgents convicted of murdering a government official just three days earlier.
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At least nine Somalis were killed and dozens wounded when a rocket fired at African Union troops hit a restaurant in an ambush that also slightly injured two of the peacekeepers, officials said on Thursday.
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Five mortar bombs exploded in northern Mogadishu on Monday, killing at least three people, wounding several others and flattening homes in the Somali capital's latest outbreak of post-war violence, witnesses said.
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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.