Somali Islamists vow not to strike government
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Somalia's top Islamist leader said on Friday his fighters did not plan to attack the Horn of Africa nation's interim government but only its "invading" Ethiopian allies.
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Extremists in Somalia threatened to carry out suicide attacks against African Union peacekeepers who are to begin deploying in the coming days, as gunmen fatally shot two local government officials in the capital.
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Gaza's Hamas rulers on Tuesday hotly denied letting al-Qaida infiltrate the coastal strip, as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has alleged.
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MOGADISHU -- The president of a semiautonomous region in northeastern Somalia said yesterday he will rule according to Islamic law, a surprising announcement in an area that has resisted the spread of Islamic militants who control much of the country's south. Puntland President General Addeh Museh did not cite a reason for his decision, but it comes amid increasing fears ...
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - Guns were silent in the sole stronghold of Somalia's interim government on Tuesday as an Islamist deadline to Ethiopian troops to leave or face holy war passed with conciliatory signs.
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A top official of Somalia's Islamic militia vowed Tuesday to launch a "major attack" within a week unless troops from neighboring Ethiopia leave this chaotic Horn of Africa country.
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Somalia's interim government and rival Islamists are to begin key talks on the country's future.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist fighters in the   Somali port city of Kismayo opened fire on Monday on residents   burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to protest against   the Islamist takeover of the city hours before.
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Militant Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, in hiding since the war at the end of 2006 that ousted his movement from southern Somalia, appeared on Thursday at a conference in Eritrea.
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Somalia's government sets up a joint police and military unit to counter attacks by suspected Islamists in Mogadishu.
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Somali opposition figures on Friday named a senior Islamist as chairman of a "liberation" alliance vowing war on Ethiopian troops and demanding the exit of Ugandan peacekeepers from the Horn of Africa nation.
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Somalia's Islamist movement threatened on Tuesday to wage war on Ethiopian troops unless they leave the Horn of Africa nation within seven days.
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A top official from Sudan&#39;s ruling party said on Thursday that the government would not disarm &quot;Arab rebels&quot; in the troubled Darfur region, saying they were not all members of the feared Janjaweed militia.
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The African Union vowed Wednesday it would not be deterred from sending troops to Somalia, despite a call by a firebrand Somali Islamist commander for an uprising against them.
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Somalia's senior Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys said on Friday his movement did not plan to attack the Horn of Africa's interim government but only "invading" Ethiopian troops.
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The president of a semiautonomous region in northeastern Somalia vowed Tuesday to resist the expansion of Islamic militants as more fighting was reported in the chaotic East African nation.
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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.