Mogadishu landmine attack targets govt troops
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Attackers detonated a landmine near Mogadishu port on Friday, hours after two people were killed trying to bury another mine in the dangerous Somali capital, an official said.
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A roadside bomb exploded Thursday near a convoy carrying Mogadishu's mayor, the second attempt on his life in two months, his spokesman said.
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Artillery and gun battles broke out in Mogadishu for a second day running on Friday as a Somali government official said Islamist rebels had joined forces with thousands of foreign jihadists.
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Gunmen fired rockets at a Mogadishu police station and Ethiopian troops in the latest in a string of attacks on government positions in the lawless Horn of African country, residents said on Monday.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi accused Al Qaeda of being behind a suicide bombing that killed seven people outside his home in Mogadishu yesterday and said its militants had to be eliminated.
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Heavy fighting erupted in Mogadishu after about 100 insurgents attacked Somali interim government troops and their Ethiopian allies at a base inside the former defense headquarters on Tuesday, a witness said.
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Land mines in Afghanistan killed at least six people late this week, the BBC reported Saturday. A roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan killed at least four people, including a policeman, late Friday.
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A wave of pre-dawn mortar attacks pounded Mogadishu and killed at least 16 people on Tuesday in one of the most brutal bombardments since an Islamist movement was forced out of the Somali capital last month.
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A large explosion struck Mogadishu on Monday near the venue where a national reconciliation conference is due to be held next month, witnesses said.
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Almost every day, Somalia's government comes under attack &#151; suicide bombings, roadside explosions, ambushes. Security forces have tried mass arrests and curfews, but to no avail.
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Pakistani officials say a land mine explosion in a semi-autonomous tribal region bordering Afghanistan has killed three people, including two soldiers, and seriously wounded at least two others.
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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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At least six explosions rocked the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Friday, witnesses said, a day after Ugandan peacekeepers started arriving in the lawless Horn of Africa country.
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Mortar bombs crashed into Mogadishu's international airport on Thursday and two government soldiers were killed in clashes with gunmen, in the latest attacks in and around the increasingly violent capital.
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Somali insurgents launch a rocket attack on an army base in southern Mogadishu, killing at least two civilians.
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The U.S. military launched a strike against a suspected al Qaeda target in northern Somalia on Friday, CNN reported.
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last month, telling supporters a historic vote in four days would be a turning point for the war-torn nation. agency reported seven policemen were killed when their vehicle drove over a land mine in the southern province of Kandahar.