Somali troops seek to recapture town
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Somalia's government has sent hundreds of troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers to recapture a strategic southern town seized by the country's powerful Islamic movement, military officials and witnesses said Sunday, as dozens of families began fleeing the area.
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MERKA, Somalia -- The handful of grain Abiye Omar clutches in her skinny hand has traveled a long way from the fertile fields of midwestern America to this desolate Somali seaside town.
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A Somali independent radio station reports coming under sustained gunfire from government troops
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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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Somali Islamists advance to the outskirts of a crucial port without a shot being fired as thousands flee, reports say.
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NAIROBI, June 22 -- In another sign of trouble for Somalia's transitional government, fighting erupted Friday among hundreds of government soldiers belonging to two rival sub-clans.
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Ethiopian and Somali troops battle Islamist insurgents in Somalia's capital Mogadishu for a second day.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - Somali security forces on Thursday hunted for the kidnappers of two foreign aid workers who were whisked away by gunmen after a firefight into a mountainous region of Puntland, local officials said.
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Heavy casualties are reported as US and Iraqi forces try to drive insurgents out of the northern Iraqi town of Talafar.
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Insurgents attacked the Somali interim government and their Ethiopian allies and battled for nearly an hour on Tuesday, shortly after mortar attacks were aimed at Ugandan peacekeepers who had just landed in Mogadishu.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Police fled a town in western Afghanistan yesterday and suspected Taliban militants briefly moved in -- the second time in a month that the government has lost control of a district in the area.
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Darfur rebels in Sudan said they had taken a town Wednesday around Geneina, the main city of west Darfur which they claim to have surrounded.
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At least 90,000 people have returned to Somalia's beleaguered capital after the heaviest fighting in more than 15 years ended last month, the United Nations said Friday.
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About 500 Ethiopian troops were  spotted in Somalia on Wednesday along a main supply route to  the government stronghold in Baidoa, as rains and floods  stalled a feared march to war in other parts of the country.
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Somali government fighters and Ethiopian troops attack Islamist positions, an Islamist leader says.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - Somali security forces were hunting the kidnappers of two foreign aid workers for a second day on Thursday, local officials said.
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Afghan troops on Tuesday prepared to deploy to a town in southern Afghanistan that one official said had been overrun by Pakistani militants.