Heavy fighting in Mogadishu kills at least six
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Heavy fighting killed at least six people in Mogadishu on Saturday as Ethiopian troops clashed with Islamist-led insurgents in the worst battles for weeks.
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Fierce fighting and roadside bomb blasts in Afghanistan killed six Afghan soldiers and more than 20 Taliban rebels, officials said Tuesday, as the Islamist insurgency raged unabated.
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- Six Islamist fighters, including foreigners from Western countries, were killed in U.S. air strikes and battles with local forces in northern Somalia, a regional official said on Sunday.
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A roadside bomb wounded at least 12 Somali soldiers in Baidoa and two people were killed in violence in Mogadishu on Saturday.
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Two schoolboys die and at least are injured as a series of attacks hit the troubled Somali capital of Mogadishu.
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Conflict in Somalia killed 6,501 civilians in the capital Mogadishu in 2007 and wounded 8,516 more, a local human rights group said on Monday.
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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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Insurgents attacked the Somali interim government and their Ethiopian allies and battled for nearly an hour on Tuesday, shortly after mortar attacks were aimed at Ugandan peacekeepers who had just landed in Mogadishu.
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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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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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Insurgents trying to attack African Union peacekeepers hit a restaurant in Somalia's capital Mogadishu with a rocket-propelled grenade, killing at least nine people in the building, residents said on Thursday.
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Fighting resumed in the capital early Saturday between Islamic militia fighters and their secular rivals a day after hundreds of residents fled some of the fiercest battles in Mogadishu in 14 years.
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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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Somali soldiers searching for arms in Mogadishu's sprawling Bakara Market killed at least five people when they opened fire after hand grenades were thrown at their patrol, witnesses said on Monday.
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A car exploded in Mogadishu on Sunday killing its four occupants and assailants shot dead a Somali government soldier, witnesses said, in the latest violence in the chaotic city hit by near-daily attacks.
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Islamic militiamen seized a checkpoint outside Somalia&#039;s capital Tuesday in an hourlong battle that killed six people, according to a clan leader who accused the militia of breaking a new cease-fire.
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A fresh mortar battle between guerrillas and Somali forces killed at least three people in the capital Mogadishu on Monday as the government set up a new rapid reaction force to respond to a wave of attacks.