Mortar bombs kill at least three in Mogadishu
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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 postwar violence, witnesses said.
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KISMAYU, Somalia  - Two Somalis and two foreign aid workers working for the Dutch arm of Medecins Sans Frontieres were killed by a roadside bomb on Monday near the southern Somali port of Kismayu, witnesses said.
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A series of blasts hit 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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Israeli troops raided southern Gaza Friday in response to mortar attacks by Palestinian militants, killing at least three Palestinians and demolishing the homes of others, local witnesses and medics said.
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Three people are killed in the heaviest explosions in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, this year.
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At least eight people were killed during a mortar bomb attack on Somalia's presidential palace, hospital officials said on Wednesday.
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Gunmen fired mortars at the Somali president's house on Sunday, hours after the country's new prime minister arrived in Mogadishu for the first time since he was sworn in last November, a presidential aide said.
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Grenade and mortar attacks killed three children on Saturday in fresh post-war violence in the Somali capital Mogadishu, residents said.
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A roadside bomb killed two children in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Friday and another wounded several bystanders in the latest strikes by insurgents fighting the Horn of Africa nation's government, residents said.
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At least two people died when gunmen threw grenades and opened fire on Ethiopian troops guarding a former Islamist base in the latest Iraq-style insurgent attack in Mogadishu, residents said on Monday.
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Mortars were fired at Somali government troops and Ethiopian soldiers in the chaotic capital Mogadishu on Friday, Deputy Defense Minister Salad Ali Jelle said.
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More than a dozen mortar bombs were fired at Mogadishu's airport on Tuesday shortly after Ugandan soldiers landed there as the vanguard of an African Union peacekeeping force.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 6 -- More than a dozen mortar shells slammed into Mogadishu's airport Tuesday shortly after the first major contingent of Ugandan peacekeepers landed there, and a deadly gun battle ensued as authorities searched nearby houses for suspects.
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Somali gunmen shot dead a senior government official in a troubled Mogadishu district and a teenager died when munitions left behind by African Union peacekeepers exploded, officials said on Tuesday.
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Somali gunmen shot dead a senior  government official in a troubled Mogadishu district and a  teenager died when munitions left behind by African Union  peacekeepers exploded, officials said on Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 9 -- Insurgents attacked U.S. convoys in restive western Iraq and fired mortar shells into a busy street near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad on Thursday, killing three people, U.S. military officials and residents said.
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A roadside bomb killed two soldiers in Somalia's chaotic capital Mogadishu on Thursday, witnesses said, hours after two aid workers were shot dead in an overnight attack in the north of the country.