Somali Islamists seek refuge in Yemen
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Yemeni and Western officials are concerned that Al Qaeda-linked radicals are among those making the journey.
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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 Islamist fighters and Ethiopian troops are facing one another in two Somali villages on the border with Ethiopia, raising fears of clashes, an Islamist leader and residents said on Friday.
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Powerful Somali Islamists claimed to have fought Ethiopian troops in central Somalia and warned of importing foreign fighters to join their holy war if the United Nations authorizes peacekeepers.
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Somalia's powerful Islamist movement said on Thursday that U.N. endorsement of an African peacekeeping force will "add fuel to the fire" in the Horn of Africa nation that many fear is on the verge of all-out war.
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Kenyan Muslims called on Friday for the return of what they say were terrorism suspects seized illegally and deported in chains to Somalia, Ethiopia and Guantanamo Bay.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist forces were poised to   take over Somalia's strategic southern port city of Kismayo   after the warlord in charge of the region fled, witnesses and   officials said on Sunday.
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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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A group of Somali lawmakers met powerful Islamists in their Mogadishu stronghold after leaving the temporary capital because of growing security fears since last month's assassination attempt on the president.
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Next week yet another attempt will be made to restore stability in Somalia, a country torn by 15 years of civil war, military intervention, and foreign meddling.
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Somali government fighters and Ethiopian troops attack Islamist positions, an Islamist leader says.
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Somalia's government offers an amnesty to members of the Islamist movement ousted from power last December.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Dozens of Islamist   battlewagons advanced on the strategic Somali port of Kismayo   on Friday in what the interim government termed a violation of   a pact to stop military expansion in Horn of Africa nation.
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Yemen is pioneering a novel approach for dealing with convicted al-Qaida operatives: Let them roam free as long as they promise to be law-abiding.
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Islamic militiamen struggled to keep up with a flow of former rivals ready to surrender prized weapons Thursday, further cementing the radical Muslims&#039; position as the undisputed power in the Somali capital.
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Somalia's Islamist movement threatened on Tuesday to wage war on more than 30,000 Ethiopian troops it said were in the Horn of Africa nation unless they left within seven days.
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SAN DIEGO -- Omar Abdi Mohamed, a lanky, soft-spoken political refugee from war-ruined Somalia in East Africa, had been preaching the word of Islam in the United States for the past nine years. Two things make him unusual.