'Heavy fighting' in Somali town
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Somali government fighters and Ethiopian troops attack Islamist positions, an Islamist leader says.
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Four mortar explosions rocked the Somali capital Friday, wounding six people &#151; including two children &#151; a day after an advance team of African peacekeepers arrived in the country, witnesses said.
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There is heavy fighting in eastern Chad two days after a state of emergency was declared.
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Somalia's government has sent hundreds of troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers to recapture a strategic southern town seized by the country's powerful Islamic movement, military officials and witnesses said Sunday, as dozens of families began fleeing the area.
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Somalia&#039;s hard-line Muslim militia forced hundreds of fighters who had been resisting strict Islamic rule to surrender Tuesday after some of the most ferocious fighting in the capital in months.
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Insurgents attacked the airport in Mogadishu on Tuesday and fought a heavy battle with government and Ethiopian troops as Ugandan peacekeepers arrived in Somalia's lawless capital.
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NAIROBI, June 22 -- In another sign of trouble for Somalia's transitional government, fighting erupted Friday among hundreds of government soldiers belonging to two rival sub-clans.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 31 -- Taliban insurgents attacked a southern town Thursday, sparking intense fighting with government troops that left two guerrillas dead, the Defense Ministry said.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The first peacekeepers to arrive in Somalia's capital in more than 10 years were met with a surge of violence yesterday, as mortar rounds hit the airport during a welcoming ceremony and a deadly battle broke out on the city's crumbling streets.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Dozens of Islamist   battlewagons advanced on the strategic Somali port of Kismayo   on Friday in what the interim government termed a violation of   a pact to stop military expansion in Horn of Africa nation.
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KISMAAYO, Somalia, Sept. 25 -- Islamic fighters in this Somali port city opened fire Monday toward residents who were burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to protest the takeover of the city hours earlier by the Islamic Courts militia.
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At least 12 people were killed and dozens wounded in heavy fighting in the Somali capital on Thursday in the latest confrontations between Ethiopian troops and Islamist-led insurgents, witnesses said.
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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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MOGADISHU -- A warlord urged Somalis yesterday to attack Ethiopian peacekeeping troops being sent to support the Somali government when it returns from Kenya this month, after last year's peace accord.
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Fighting killed at least four people in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday as Islamist-led rebels attacked government troops and their Ethiopian allies.
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Somalia's government orders a night-time curfew in the capital as it struggles to end a wave of violence.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist fighters in the   Somali port city of Kismayo opened fire on Monday on residents   burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to protest against   the Islamist takeover of the city hours before.