'Anti-terror force' for Somalia
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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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Backed by the African Union,  Somalia's government appealed to the United Nations on Friday  to send a peacekeeping force there, but the Security Council  delayed a response until next month, diplomats said.
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The UN Security Council approves the deployment of an African peacekeeping force to tackle unrest in Somalia.
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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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Somali government fighters and Ethiopian troops attack Islamist positions, an Islamist leader says.
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An African Union team visits Somalia on Monday to test the waters for deploying a peacekeeping force.
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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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Comments Four Britons detained in Somalia on terrorism charges have been been returned to the UK today, but could be back on the streets within hours.Comment
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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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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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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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Officials with the Islamic militia controlling much of southern Somalia alleged that Ethiopian troops had arrived in the country Sunday to bolster Somalia's weak, U.N.-backed transitional government.
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Islamists and opposition leaders are set to join forces to try to overthrow Somalia's transitional government.
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Somalia's Islamist movement threatened on Tuesday to wage war on Ethiopian troops unless they leave the Horn of Africa nation within seven days.
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The powerful Islamists in Somalia warn they will fight peacekeepers, after the UN backs a peace force.
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The UN Security Council has unanimously approved the deployment of an African Union peacekeeping force to Somalia, which could be followed in six months by a UN force.
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Somalia's interim government and a rival Islamist militia agree in principle to establish a national army.