Islamists blow up Somali colonel
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A top Somali military official is killed by a landmine placed under his chair by an Islamist group.
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KISMAYU, Somalia  - An explosion tore through a ceremony in southern Somalia on Sunday, killing at least four people and wounding more than 20 others including senior military and police commanders, witnesses said.
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Suspected Islamic insurgents attacked Ethiopian soldiers in the Somali capital, residents said Thursday, killing one civilian and raising fears of a return of the violence that rocked Mogadishu over a month ago.
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U.S. warships bombarded a remote, mountainous village where Islamic militants had set up a base, officials in the northern Somali region of Puntland said Saturday.
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Ethiopian troops fired  rockets at a strategic town north of Somalia's capital, Islamist officials tell a rally.
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The Nairobi residence of the newly elected Somali president is reportedly attacked by unknown gunmen.
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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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Afghan Taleban leader Mullah Omar sacks one of his top military commanders, Mansoor Dadullah.
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Fighting killed at least four people in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday as Islamist-led rebels attacked government troops and their Ethiopian allies.
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Insurgents trying to attack African Union peacekeepers hit a restaurant in Somalia's capital Mogadishu with a rocket-propelled grenade, killing at least nine people in the building, residents said on Thursday.
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Somali insurgents launch a rocket attack on an army base in southern Mogadishu, killing at least two civilians.
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A grenade thrown into a crowd watching a foreign film in the south-central town of Baidoa killed four people and wounded six in the latest flare-up in chaotic Somalia, residents said on Friday.
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An explosion wounded a senior Islamic  Jihad field commander in a Gaza refugee camp Thursday in what  the Palestinian militant group called an Israeli assassination  attempt.
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Islamist faction's fighters launch new attacks.
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Mortar bombs were fired at Somali government troops and Ethiopian soldiers in Mogadishu on Friday, Deputy Defense Minister Salad Ali Jelle said.
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Insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles attacked an Ethiopian army base in northern Mogadishu, triggering a deadly nighttime clash that sent stray mortar rounds crashing into homes, residents and witnesses said Sunday.
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An explosion wounded a senior Islamic Jihad field commander in a Gaza refugee camp Thursday in what the Palestinian militant group called an Israeli assassination attempt.