U.S. hires contractor to back Somalis
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The State Department has hired a major military contractor to help equip and provide logistical support to international peacekeepers in Somalia, giving the United States a significant role in the critical mission without assigning combat forces.
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The United States Monday welcomed the formation of a transitional parliament in Somalia, an African nation beset with ethnic violence and factional fighting.
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In Djibouti, US forces combat terrorism with civil affairs work. Will this be a model for a future US military command in Africa?
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The Defense Department plans to continue hiring private contractors to provide security at reconstruction projects in Iraq and to train U.S. and Iraqi military officers in counterinsurgency, despite problems with past contracts for such jobs that traditionally have been done by military personnel.
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BOSSASSO, Somalia  - A U.S. warship attacked a suspected al Qaeda target in northern Somalia, CNN reported, and residents said on Saturday missiles had pounded hills where foreign jihadists fled after clashing with locals.
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Relief efforts by aid agencies and US and German soldiers help Somalis made homeless after last week's tsunami.
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UNITED NATIONS, July 4 -- Abdul Hakim Monib, the governor of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, has drawn praise from U.S. military commanders as a partner in the battle against global terrorism, lending crucial political support for international relief and reconstruction projects in territory...
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Thousands of Somalis chanted anti-American slogans on Monday at an Islamist protest against a U.S.-backed plan to send foreign peacekeepers to prop up the country's tottering interim government.
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For a Mogadishu port worker, an Islamic group&#039;s takeover of most of southern Somalia means he can haul cargo without fear of rampaging militiamen.
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The United States must move urgently to help deploy more international peacekeeping troops to Somalia, where a U.N.-supported government is under attack from radical Islamic insurgents, the government's prime minister said  yesterday.
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Somali Islamist forces backed by 4,000 foreign fighters are moving into position for an attack on the interim government's base, Somalia's prime minister said on Wednesday.
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BOSSASSO, Somalia  - Six Islamist fighters, including foreigners from Western nations, were killed in U.S. air strikes and battles with local forces in northern Somalia this weekend, a regional official said on Sunday.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - U.S. aircraft are hunting foreign jihadists in the remote mountains of northern Somalia where American forces launched air strikes earlier this month, a regional official said on Tuesday.
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Ziad H. Hamzeh's documentary is important as a record of a disturbing incident that occured when 1,100 immigrants from Somalia settled in Maine.
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A powerful Somali militia has said it was ready to fight Ethiopian invaders, sparking fears of an all-out war in the lawless African nation.
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European Union experts say the United  States is pushing to get a regional peacekeeping force deployed  in Somalia and this could trigger a wider war in the Horn of  Africa, European Commission sources said on Tuesday.
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Somalis in Mogadishu have broadly welcomed calls for an Arab-African peacekeeping force to replace Ethiopians troops supporting their interim government, which is being battered by an insurgency.