Mortar bomb hits Mogadishu residential area
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A mortar bomb struck a residential area of eastern Mogadishu on Thursday, wounding a young girl in the latest in a string of almost daily attacks in the chaotic seaside capital, residents said.
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Insurgents unleashed two attacks against the Somali government and its foreign allies in Mogadishu on Tuesday, just hours after Ugandan peacekeepers assigned to tame the anarchic city landed.
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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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A mortar strike in Somalia killed eight members of a family at a refugee camp on Sunday in the latest bloodshed of fighting between Islamist-led rebels and country's interim government, witnesses said.
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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 have fired mortar shells into the seaport of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, signalling an escalation of attacks in the lawless African nation since a joint Somali-Ethiopian force took control of the city from an Islamist force late last year.
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A mother and her three children are among 12 dead as mortars are fired in the Somali capital, witnesses say.
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Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi accused al Qaeda of being behind a suicide bombing that killed seven people outside his home in Mogadishu on Sunday and said its militants had to be eliminated.
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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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An explosion tore through the home of a  senior Hamas militant in Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least  four people and wounding him and about a dozen other  Palestinians, medics said.
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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 post-war violence, witnesses 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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northern city of Mosul and insurgents have fired mortar bombs at a police academy in eastern Baghdad. The Interior Ministry said there were no casualties in the mortar attack in Baghdad.
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BEIT LAHIYA (Gaza Strip) - Palestinians lobbed mortar shells at an Israeli settlement in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, hours after Israeli troops ended a raid of the area meant to stop such attacks.
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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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Suspected Islamist insurgents targeted a major reconciliation meeting in Somalia with mortar bombs on Thursday, missing the venue but killing at least five children playing nearby, residents said.
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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf escaped unhurt from a mortar attack on his official residence in the capital on Saturday, hours after returning to Mogadishu from an overseas trip, one of his aides said.