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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Unknown attackers threw three grenades at Somali troops patrolling Mogadishu's sprawling Bakara Market on Monday, a day after soldiers killed at least five people following a similar grenade attack.
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A thunderous barrage of mortars or rockets killed at least three people and wounded 18 in the Green Zone on Tuesday, the U.S. Embassy said. One of the dead was an American service member.
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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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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 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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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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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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THREE militants from the armed branch of the Palestinian group Hamas were killed overnight by Israeli army fire during an incursion in the southern Gaza Strip, a Hamas spokesman said.
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Suspected Islamist rebels fired mortar bombs at Somalia's presidential palace in Mogadishu on Wednesday, witnesses said, increasing tension ahead of a major peace meeting at the weekend.
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Mortar attacks in a residential area and on a hotel in the Somali capital killed five people and injured 10 on Saturday, witnesses said, a day after a previously unknown pro-Islamist group warned it would step up violence.
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GAZA CITY -- Gunmen fired on the Palestinian foreign minister's convoy yesterday, and militants launched mortar shells at President Mahmoud Abbas's office in a daylong wave of factional violence that killed three people.
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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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A mother and her three children are among 12 dead after mortars are fired into the Somali capital, witnesses say.
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Fighting between Somali government forces and insurgents killed several people in Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and residents said, in some of the worst clashes since a peace conference ended.
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Insurgents launched mortars at the airport as an African Union team left Somalia Wednesday, killing a 13-year-old boy and wounding three others, witnesses said.
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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.