Roadside bomb targets Ethiopian forces in Somalia
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A roadside bomb blast tore through a convoy carrying Ethiopian troops in a central Somali town on Wednesday, but it was not immediately clear if anyone was killed, witnesses said.
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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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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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An Ethiopian military convoy in Somalia is ambushed by Islamist fighters who claim some 20 were killed, witnesses say.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The transitional president of Somalia narrowly escaped assassination yesterday when a car bomb exploded as he left a converted grain silo that serves as the nation's makeshift Parliament.
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Ethiopian troops withdrawn from the key town in central Somalia linking a road between the two countries.
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Somalia's powerful Islamist group give Ethiopian troops a week to leave the country or face a "major attack".
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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, and the capital's international airport came under mortar fire Thursday.
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Somali government troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers shot a man on Friday, wounding him as they cleared a former defense ministry compound in a crackdown on near-daily attacks in Mogadishu, residents said.
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The U.S. military launched a strike against a suspected al Qaeda target in northern Somalia on Friday, CNN reported.
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KISMAYU, Somalia  - Ethiopian soldiers paraded on Tuesday a wounded senior cleric captured in south Somalia during the pursuit of remnants of an Islamist movement ousted from Mogadishu in a war over the New Year.
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Somalia's powerful Islamist group give Ethiopian troops a week to leave the country or be forced out.
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A Somali port is hit by deadly grenade attacks on Ethiopians believed to be about to risk the crossing to Yemen.
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Officials with the Islamic militia controlling much of southern Somalia alleged that Ethiopian troops had arrived in the country Sunday to bolster Somalia's weak, U.N.-backed transitional government.
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Ethiopia foiled an Eritrean-backed attack that had targeted the African Union summit attended by some 40 heads of states in Addis Ababa this week, an Ethiopian police statement said on Friday.
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At least six explosions rocked the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Friday, witnesses said, a day after Ugandan peacekeepers started arriving in the lawless Horn of Africa country.
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Ugandan military officers on Thursday arrived in Somalia in the first contingent of an African Union peacekeeping force to be deployed in the war-shattered Horn of Africa nation.