Government blames Mogadishu attack on Islamists
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MOGADISHU - Mortar bombs and rockets struck parts of Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Thursday in an attack a government security source blamed on Islamists.
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Artillery and gun battles broke out in Mogadishu for a second day running on Friday as a Somali government official said Islamist rebels had joined forces with thousands of foreign jihadists.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist fighters in the   Somali port city of Kismayo opened fire on Monday toward   residents burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to   protest against the Islamist takeover of the city hours before.
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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.
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A suicide car bomb killed at least seven people near the Somali government seat of Baidoa on Thursday in an attack the administration blamed on rival Islamists amid rising fears of war in the chaotic nation.
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Insurgents unleashed two attacks against the Somali government and its foreign allies in Mogadishu on Tuesday, just hours after Ugandan peacekeepers assigned to tame the anarchic city landed.
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A car exploded in Mogadishu on Sunday killing its four occupants and assailants shot dead a Somali government soldier, witnesses said, in the latest violence in the chaotic city hit by near-daily attacks.
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Officials say Islamist militants behind assassination attempt on Benazir Bhutto.
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Islamists from Britain, Sweden and Pakistan are killed in joint US-Somali operations, Somali officials say.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - Somali police stepped up   investigations on Tuesday to discover who was behind the   country's first known suicide bombing, which targeted interim   President Abdullahi Yusuf.
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Attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a pickup truck in Mogadishu on Thursday, wounding four people, in a reminder of the challenges facing the interim government trying to rule lawless Somalia.
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Almost every day, Somalia's government comes under attack &#151; suicide bombings, roadside explosions, ambushes. Security forces have tried mass arrests and curfews, but to no avail.
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A bomb planted by the Muslim militant group Abu Sayyaf caused the sinking of a Philippine ferry that killed more than 100 people in February, the government said on Monday.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist fighters in the   Somali port of Kismayo opened fire on Monday on residents who   were burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to protest   against the Islamist takeover of the city hours earlier.
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Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi vowed on Tuesday to bring ousted Islamists to justice after the latest spate of postwar attacks targeted a minister's house and the port in Mogadishu.
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The Pakistan government blamed Islamist militants for a grenade and suicide bomb attack early on Friday that killed 133 people as opposition leader Benazir Bhutto drove through masses of supporters in Karachi.
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Two schoolboys die and at least are injured as a series of attacks hit the troubled Somali capital of Mogadishu.