Somali region says U.S. planes hunting Islamists
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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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Both sides in the Somali conflict play down the significance of a deadline by Islamists for an attack.
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BOSSASSO, Somalia  - A U.S. Navy 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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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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Somalia's virtually powerless government said a cargo plane that landed at the capital's airport Wednesday morning was carrying weapons for Islamic militants who have seized control of much of southern Somalia.
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Somalia's Islamic militia invited U.S. government leaders on Thursday to visit the capital, Mogadishu, the city where 18 U.S. troops on a peacekeeping mission to the East African nation were killed in 1993.
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Mortar bombs hit several parts of Mogadishu before dawn on Tuesday, witnesses said, killing at least seven people in one of the fiercest bombardments since an Islamist movement was chased from Somalia's capital last month.
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A US Navy ship fires on a suspected Islamist militant in a remote village in northern Somalia, reports say.
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The Islamists who control much of southern Somalia say they will seize the border with Kenya, possibly to stop peacekeepers.
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ARUSHA, Tanzania, June 2 -- A U.S. Navy destroyer launched an attack on foreign fighters in a remote corner of northeastern Somalia late Friday, according to a senior U.S. official, though details of the operation remained sketchy.
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American aircraft attacked an area known as a haven for militants linked to Al Qaeda in Mespotamia.
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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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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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Stung by setbacks to its latest strategy in Somalia, the United States for the first time reached out to hardline Islamists, its erstwhile enemies, to help catch &amp;quot;terrorists&amp;quot; allegedly hiding in the shattered African nation.
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Militant Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, in hiding since a war ousted his movement from southern Somalia at the end of 2006, appeared on Thursday at a conference in Eritrea.
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These days, no one in Mogadishu seems   to see the planes and drones suspected of flying U.S.   surveillance runs over the Somali city.
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U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed more than 45 Islamist Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.