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Ambulance offers hope in war-torn Somalia

Chaos and death on the streets of Mogadishu: unfortunately, it's nothing new in the Somali capital.

Somali government says it's taken town from Islamist fighters

Somali government forces have seized control of a central town from an al Qaeda-linked Islamist militia, a spokesman for Somalia's president said Thursday.

Somali president calls for help in battling Islamist militias

Somalia needs international help to fight Islamist extremists battling for power in the lawless Horn of Africa nation, the country's moderate Islamist president said Monday.

Dozens of civilians killed in latest Somalia fighting

Fighting between government and rebel forces in Somalia over the past two days has killed more than 40 civilians and wounded about 150 others, according to sources at the scene.

Ethiopian forces back in Somalia, locals say

Ethiopian forces returned to Somalia on Tuesday, seizing control of a Somali border town, a local journalist told CNN.

Islamic militants seize Somali city

Somalia's hard-line Islamic group Al-Shabab seized control of Jowhar, the president's hometown, after a battle with pro-government forces Sunday.

Bombing injures Somali interior minister

A roadside bomb attack Thursday in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, injured the nation's interior minister and killed one of his secretaries, according to a source close to the minister.

Women in Somali city must cover up or go to jail

Women in Somalia's third-largest city, Baidoa, have been ordered to wear Islamic dress starting this week or face jail time, according to a resident and Somali media reports.

Somali president bends to rebel demand for sharia law

Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed said Saturday he will give in to a rebel demand that he impose Islamic law, or sharia, in an effort to halt fighting between Somali forces and Islamic insurgents.

Peacekeepers' fury over Somalia killing

The African Union responded angrily and defiantly to the killing of at least 11 Burundian soldiers in an apparent suicide bomb attack Sunday in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.

Ambulance offers hope in war-torn Somalia

Chaos and death on the streets of Mogadishu: unfortunately, it's nothing new in the Somali capital.

Somali government says it's taken town from Islamist fighters

Somali government forces have seized control of a central town from an al Qaeda-linked Islamist militia, a spokesman for Somalia's president said Thursday.

Somali president calls for help in battling Islamist militias

Somalia needs international help to fight Islamist extremists battling for power in the lawless Horn of Africa nation, the country's moderate Islamist president said Monday.

Dozens of civilians killed in latest Somalia fighting

Fighting between government and rebel forces in Somalia over the past two days has killed more than 40 civilians and wounded about 150 others, according to sources at the scene.

Ethiopian forces back in Somalia, locals say

Ethiopian forces returned to Somalia on Tuesday, seizing control of a Somali border town, a local journalist told CNN.

Islamic militants seize Somali city

Somalia's hard-line Islamic group Al-Shabab seized control of Jowhar, the president's hometown, after a battle with pro-government forces Sunday.

Bombing injures Somali interior minister

A roadside bomb attack Thursday in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, injured the nation's interior minister and killed one of his secretaries, according to a source close to the minister.

Women in Somali city must cover up or go to jail

Women in Somalia's third-largest city, Baidoa, have been ordered to wear Islamic dress starting this week or face jail time, according to a resident and Somali media reports.

Somali president bends to rebel demand for sharia law

Peacekeepers' fury over Somalia killing

The African Union responded angrily and defiantly to the killing of at least 11 Burundian soldiers in an apparent suicide bomb attack Sunday in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.

New Somali president sworn in amid upheaval

Moderate Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Sheekh Ahmed was sworn in as Somalia's new president Saturday after he was voted in by the country's parliament, a Somali journalist said.

Islamist fighters seize Somali government seat

Radical Islamist fighters seized control of the seat of Somalia's U.N.-backed transitional government Monday, raiding the parliament building and demanding that several lawmakers publicly surrender, according to a journalist who witnessed the spectacle.

'Terror group' joins Somali capital takeover

Islamist militants took almost full control of Mogadishu on Thursday, less than 24 hours after Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia's capital, a witness reported.

Ethiopian troops begin Somali withdrawal

Ethiopian forces propping up Somalia's transitional government have begun their withdrawal from the country, pulling out of two key bases in Mogadishu, eyewitnesses and officials said Tuesday.

Rights group berates West over Somalia failure

The United States and other Western powers have "exacerbated Somalia's downward spiral" and must revise their policies in the east African country, a Human Rights Watch report has warned.

At least 47 dead in Somali violence

At least 47 people have been killed in a series of violent incidents in Somalia, according to reports.

Ethiopian forces kill Somali civilians, witnesses say

Ethiopian forces in Somalia have killed at least 46 civilians after a roadside bomb ripped through their military convoy, residents said.

Somalia: Clashes leave at least 10 dead

Fresh fighting between Ethiopian-backed government forces and Islamic insurgents in Somalia's capital city of Mogadishu reportedly killed at least 10 people Sunday, eyewitnesses said.

Report: Somali civilians 'routinely targeted' for brutality

Soldiers, insurgents and bandits routinely target civilians in Somalia for rape, robbery and murder, according to an Amnesty International report released Tuesday.

U.S. kills Somali with links to al Qaeda, officials say

A U.S. missile strike Thursday killed a Somali Islamic militant leader with ties to al Qaeda and several other senior leaders of his group, Al-Shaabab, local officials said.

Somalia car bomb targets peacekeepers

A suicide car bomber on Tuesday attacked a building in Somalia that houses African Union peacekeepers, reportedly wounding seven people. An Islamist militia claimed responsibility.

Islamic fighters seize Somalia town

Clashes between Islamist fighters and Ethiopian-backed government forces in Somalia this week killed dozens of people, as a militia group took over two towns and attempted to seize a third, according to journalist sources.

Killings force medical charity's withdrawal

The medical aid charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres, is pulling international staff out of Somalia after three of its members were killed.

Ethiopia calls for help in Somalia

Ethiopia's government Tuesday called on the international community to step up its support for an African-led peacekeeping mission in Somalia, where Ethiopian troops have been mired in an Islamist insurgency since invading last December.

Somalia troops shut radio station

Somalia's transitional government shut down the independent Shabelle Radio network Monday, amid a new push by government troops and their Ethiopian allies to put down an insurgency, network managers reported.

Children die in Somalia violence

Neighborhoods in the Somali capital were deserted on Sunday, a day after 17 civilians were brutally killed in the wake of intense fighting between Ethiopian-backed Somali troops and Islamic insurgents, according to witnesses and journalists in Mogadishu.

Time.com: Somalia's War Flares Up Again

New fighting between Ethiopian troops and Somali insurgents is extinguishing the hope that the chaos was ending

Crowd drags Ethiopian corpse, echoing 1993 brutality

An enraged crowd dragged the body of an Ethiopian soldier through the streets of Somalia's capital Thursday after gun battles with Islamic insurgents killed 19 people, witnesses reported.

Somali radio station under fire

Journalist groups rushed to the defense of Somalia's Shabelle Media Network after its Mogadishu facilities came under fire, reportedly from government forces.

Children killed in attack on Somali government meeting

Suspected Islamic insurgents fired mortar rounds at a Somali government meeting in Mogadishu on Thursday, barely missing the target but striking a nearby village, killing six civilians -- most of them children -- a government spokesman told CNN.

Sources: U.S. fires at al Qaeda target in Somalia

A U.S. Navy destroyer off the coast of northern Somalia Friday fired on a suspected al Qaeda operative believed to have been involved in the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, sources confirmed to CNN.

Somali prime minister survives grenade attack

Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi survived an attempt on his life in central Mogadishu Thursday when grenades thrown at his convoy failed to explode, a government spokesman said.

Somalis flee fierce fighting in Mogadishu

Fighting raged Saturday in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu, and a local human rights group reported dozens of casualties and scores of people fleeing the chaotic city -- a persistent hotbed of violence spawned by the fighting between Ethiopian troops and Islamic insurgents.

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U.S. conducts first overt strikes in Somalia since 1994

The U.S. military carried out an airstrike against an al Qaeda operative in southern Somalia this week, the second strike this month, U.S. military officials said Wednesday.

Ethiopian troops enter Mogadishu

Ethiopian troops, along with Somali government soldiers, entered Mogadishu on the heels of retreating Islamist troops Thursday, according to a journalist in the Somali capital.

Car bomb attack kills 8 in Somalia

A car bomb targeting Somalia's transitional president, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, killed eight people Monday outside Somalia's parliament in Baidoa, according to presidential and hospital sources.

15 dead in Somalia gun battle

Islamic militia fighters Sunday attacked a group loyal to secular warlord Hussein Aideed in Mogadishu who refused to disarm. The ensuing firefight left 15 dead and over 20 injured, hospital sources said.

U.S. won't deal with Somalia Islamist

A State Department spokesman said Monday the U.S. would not deal with the new leader of the Islamic militia in Somalia because of his alleged ties to al Qaeda.

Somalia cease-fire deal reached

Somalia's transitional government and the Islamic militia that seized control of the war-torn capital Mogadishu have signed a cease-fire in which the two factions agreed to work together, a government representative said Thursday.

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