Somalia says it will resist Muslim militia
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Somalia&#039;s weak interim government said Friday it will resist attempts by an increasingly powerful Muslim militia to assert authority across the Horn of Africa country that Osama bin Laden calls a battleground in his fight against the U.S.
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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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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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Dissident Somali lawmakers on Friday joined Islamists, who control much of southern Somalia, in accusing Ethiopia of preparing to attack the country and said they were ready for a holy war to defend themselves.
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Somalia's government sets up a joint police and military unit to counter attacks by suspected Islamists.
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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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Somalia's Islamists demands that the self-declared republic of Somaliland free a Muslim cleric.
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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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Troops stepped up security across the Somali capital Saturday after Islamists threatened to disrupt a peace conference, saying anyone who takes part "is sentenced to death."
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Somalia's government vowed on Saturday to bring to justice militiamen who exhumed hundreds of skeletons from an Italian colonial-era cemetery and dumped them near Mogadishu's airport.
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Police fired into the air and arrested several people demonstrating Friday in support of an Islamic group that is vying for authority in Somalia and against calls for the deployment of peacekeepers here.
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The newly elected president of Somalia says the country's businesses must disband their militias.
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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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Hundreds of Ethiopian troops arrived to protect Somalia's government Friday as witnesses said a powerful Islamic militia massed nearby, raising concerns of clashes between the two forces.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist fighters in the   Somali port city of Kismayo opened fire on Monday on residents   burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to protest against   the Islamist takeover of the city hours before.
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Somalia&#039;s nearly powerless interim government said Friday it would boycott weekend peace talks with the Islamic militia that has seized control of nearly all the nation&#039;s south, accusing the group of civilian massacres and ties to foreign terrorists.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Somali Islamists quelled a   women's protest against the takeover of Kismayo port on   Tuesday, as the interim government expressed hope the latest   tensions with its rivals would not derail peace talks in Sudan.