Somali Islamists threaten AU peacekeepers
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A Somali Islamist group threatened on Tuesday to fight any peacekeeping troops sent to their country as African leaders struggled to put together an international force for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation.
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Burundi deployed a second contingent  of 92 peacekeepers to the Somali capital on Monday, to bolster  an African Union force struggling to stem violence in the  turbulent Horn of Africa nation.
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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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The leader of Islamic militants who have seized much of this chaotic African nation said Tuesday that the presence of Ethiopian troops sent to bolster Somalia's weak government has scuttled any chance for peace.
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Somali Islamists, who are in charge of the capital and other key areas, are becoming more radical and under growing control from an al Qaeda cell in East Africa, the top U.S. diplomat for Africa said on Thursday.
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Somalia's Islamists demands that the self-declared republic of Somaliland free a Muslim cleric.
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A hitherto unknown Islamist group has  threatened to attack U.S.-led troops and American citizens in  Iraq if foreign forces do not leave the holy city of Najaf in  48 hours, according to an Internet statement posted on Monday.
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Somali opposition figures on Friday named a senior Islamist as chairman of a "liberation" alliance vowing war on Ethiopian troops and demanding the exit of Ugandan peacekeepers from the Horn of Africa nation.
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Sudanese Islamist leaders say they   will take up arms against United Nations peacekeepers if they   deploy to Darfur, and some have warned they will also fight the   Khartoum government if it agrees to the force.
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An African Union military delegation has arrived in Somalia for a three-day mission to assess security before the planned deployment of a peacekeeping force, an official said Sunday.
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Somalia's powerful Islamist group give Ethiopian troops a week to leave the country or be forced out.
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Somalia's newly elected president,  Abdullahi Yusuf, has asked the African Union to send 20,000  peacekeepers to disarm militias controlling his lawless Horn of  Africa country, an AU spokesman said on Saturday.
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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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Militants from Hamas threaten to overrun Gaza security positions belonging to Palestinian rivals Fatah.
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The African Union (AU), which is trying to help bring peace to the troubled region, said one of its monitoring helicopters had come under fire.
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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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The Islamists who control much of southern Somalia say they will seize the border with Kenya, possibly to stop peacekeepers.