Somali attacks kill 5, Islamist opposes peace force
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A senior Islamist leader on Friday rejected the prospect of African peacekeepers for Somalia, as fresh violence in the capital killed five civilians and underscored the continued threat in the war-ravaged country.
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The leader of a paramilitary faction involved in peace talks was apparently one of five insurgents killed in an ambush on Monday, officials said.
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Hamas hardened its stance on Saturday after a new barrage of Israeli airstrikes killed five militants, saying it would not consider a truce and calling for more attacks on Israel.
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Suspected Islamist insurgents targeted a major reconciliation meeting in Somalia with mortar bombs on Thursday, missing the venue but killing at least five children playing nearby, residents said.
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At least nine Somalis were killed when a rocket fired at African Union (AU) troops hit a restaurant in an ambush that inflicted the first casualties on the peacekeepers, officials said on Thursday.
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A senior commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement was among at least five people killed and 40 wounded in an explosion in the Gaza Strip late on Friday, a group spokesman and local medics said.
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A mother and her five children were killed Sunday by a mortar round fired during fighting between Somali insurgents and Ethiopian troops.
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Somali police raid a mosque, as the main market in the capital opens after an arms dispute closed it for five days.
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At least two people are reportedly killed during fighting in the Somali capital, as peace talks are due to start.
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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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A remote-controlled roadside bomb tore into an Ethiopian army convoy in Somalia on Wednesday, wounding five soldiers and sparking gunfire that killed at least four civilians, locals and a security source said.
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Five people are killed in what appears to be ethnic violence in western Kenya linked to last month's disputed elections.
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Seven people are killed in overnight attacks on Ethiopia troops in Somali's capital Mogadishu, residents say.
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Somalia's government has ruled out peace talks with the country's powerful Islamic movement, citing truce violations, heightening fears of an all-out war in the shattered African nation.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan  -- Security forces clashed with militants Tuesday outside a radical mosque where students have carried out a string of kidnappings of police officers and alleged prostitutes, killing five people, officials said.
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The attack on a sugar mill killed five Afghan members of parliament.
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Five mortar bombs struck northern Mogadishu on Monday, killing at least three people, wounding several others and flattening homes in the Somali capital's latest outbreak of post-war violence, witnesses said.