Topic: Mogadishu

Suicide bomber hits Somali capital, dozens killed in south

MOGADISHU/NAIROBI (Reuters) - A suicide bomber struck the Somali capital on Tuesday, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks in Mogadishu, and dozens of Islamist rebels and Somali government troops have been killed in fighting in the south.The car bomb exploded ...

Suicide bomber hits Somali capital, dozens killed in

MOGADISHU/NAIROBI (Reuters) - A suicide bomber struck the Somali capital on Tuesday, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks in Mogadishu, and dozens of Islamist rebels and Somali government troops have been killed in fighting in the south.The car bomb exploded ...

Suicide bomber strikes near Turk embassy in Mogadishu

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded yards from the Turkish embassy in the Somali capital Tuesday, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks in the coastal city, and a health official said three people were killed.The suicide attack piles yet ...

Suicide blast in heart of Somali capital

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in the heart of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, witnesses said, the latest in a string of deadly attacks in the coastal city.The suicide attack piles yet more pressure on a government that relies ...

Four killed by suicide blast in Somali capital

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber attacked a government compound in Mogadishu on Wednesday, killing four government soldiers and narrowly missing the army chief."I am alive. It was a suicide bomber. You can see his body parts," General Abdikarim Yusuf Dhagabadan told ...

Analysis: Ethiopia dragged reluctantly back into Somalia

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopia is being sucked back into Somalia to open another front against Islamist rebels battling Kenyan forces but even a military victory is unlikely to end two decades of anarchy unless the country's feuding politicians and clans want peace.A ...

Large blast heard near Somali rebel stronghold

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A large explosion was heard near a Somali rebel stronghold about 30 km (19 miles) from the capital Mogadishu Sunday, residents and a senior rebel official said.They said the blast hit near Afgoye, one of 10 Somali towns the ...
Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels displayed "over 70" dead bodies outside Mogadishu on Thursday, which they claimed were African Union peacekeepers killed in battle.If verified, it would be the worst massacre and largest single defeat that the AU force in Mogadishu has suffered ...

Islamist rebels under attack in Somalia

African Union and Somali government troops battled Shebab rebels in the anarchic capital Mogadishu Thursday, as torrential rains hampered Kenyan troops in the south attacking Islamist positions there.Heavy fighting broke out before dawn in Mogadishu as AU-backed Somali forces advanced on holdout ...

Somali rebels fortify defenses, blast kills six in capital

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali militants linked to al Qaeda prepared to defend a town in southern Somalia on Tuesday from advancing Kenyan and government troops, while a suicide car bomb killed six people in the capital during a visit by a Kenyan ...
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