A grenade attack against a local official’s office in Mogadishu killed five people and wounded four others. A land dispute in central Somalia resulted in a gun battle that left nine dead and and 18 wounded. Three children were killed and two wounded when the grenade they played with exploded.
Somali Islamist leader rejects talks with gov’t
Insurgent mortar attacks against three military bases around Mogadishu left 33 Ethiopian and government soldiers dead. The Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) has taken responsibility for the attacks.
Business leaders in the Somali capital’s main Bakara market held a closed-door meeting Saturday where a proposal to establish a private army was discussed. An officer with the Puntland Intelligence Service (PIS) was shot and killed Thursday night in the region’s port city of Bossaso.
A police officer was shot to death in Mogadishu and an Islamic teacher was gunned down by armed men dressed in military fatigues. Separately, a local musician named Adan Hassan Salad was gunned down while drinking tea at a caf
Islamic terrorists beheaded three Somalian soldiers following a clash south of Mogadishu. The Somali transitional government announced that it would like to engage opposition groups in dialogue to help end the country’s 16-year civil war. Ongoing violence is forcing 20,000 civilians to flee Mogadishu each month.
Islamists behead three soldiers in Somalia
A roadside bomb targeting a military convoy killed a pregnant woman and wounded four others in Mogadishu. The security minister in Somalia’s semiautonomous State of Puntland has handed in his official resignation papers.
Insurgents attacked government installations in the provincial town of Beletwein overnight Thursday, killing at least three government soldiers and wounding two people, including a civilian.The US government strongly condemned the closure of Somalian radio stations and the arrest of Shabelle Radio’s director Mukhtar Mohamed Hirabe. Fourteen Ethiopian soldiers were killed late on Thursday as insurgents […]
Shabaab fighters have taken over towns as close as 35 miles south of the provincial capital of Baidoa. Four civilians were killed after Shabaab fighters attacked Ethiopian forces south of Mogadishu. Somali sources said Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was not killed in the recent airstrike in Dhobley.
Somalis protest after US missile attack
Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was behind 1998 suicide attacks against US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and 2002 attacks in Kenya.
Yesterday’s missile strike was aimed at Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a Kenyan born in 1979 who is wanted by the FBI for questioning in the nearly simultaneous attacks in 2002 on a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, and on an Israeli airliner taking off from there, said three American officials, who spoke on the condition of […]
Missile attack occurred right on the southern border with Kenya. The target has yet to be identified, but three senior al Qaeda operatives are known to shelter in Somalia and have been targeted in the past. Hassan Turki ran a terror camp in the region.
Clashes in Mogadishu between Somali troops and Shabaab resulted in 17 killed and 80 wounded. Government troops broke into the Shabelle Radio office in Mogadishu, arrested the station director, and seized equipment. Forces loyal to the governor and deputy governor of the Middle Shabelle region clashed near the provincial capital of Jowhar.
Somalia: Media says Norwegian court releases 2, detains 1 terror suspect
Seven Somali troops were killed and eight wounded in an ambush in the Dinsor district of the Bai province. Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack. Four Ethiopian troops were killed in an ambush in Mogadishu.
Shabaab fighters ambushed a large Ethiopian convoy in Hiran. A Yemeni consul survived a grenade attack in Mogadishu. The United Nations Security Council extended the African Union mission by six months. The prime minister supports a broad-based reconciliation process.
Somali prime minister says open for talks with foes
A senior government official was assassinated after he left a mosque in the in Yaqshid district on Saturday night. Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf escaped unhurt from a mortar attack by Islamist insurgents on his official residence in Mogadishu. Yemen’s ambassador to Somalia Ahmed Omar denied reports that he was nearly assassinated in the Somali capital […]
UN council delays debate on Somalia peacekeeping
3 civilians killed in Somalia as artillery shells hit neighborhoods
Insurgents will not get power through violence: Somalia minister
Somalia’s prime minister traveled to Asmara, Eritrea to negotiate with the leaders of the Islamic Courts. Shabaab terrorists attacked the UN building in Mogadishu with three hand grenades.
Islamist insurgents in Somalia have claimed responsibility for twin attacks in the northeast port city of Bossaso that left 20 dead. The presence of the Ethiopian Army inside Somalia remains the most contentious issue in the country’s chaotic political landscape. Armed groups have killed two government troops after they assaulted the troop’s base in Yaqbari […]
Shabaab claimed credit for a series of bombings in Puntland that killed 20 and wounded more than 70 Somalis. “This location [in Bossaso] was a place where Ethiopian and Puntland soldiers go for entertainment, with sinful acts and harmful culture,” according to a Shabaab statement published on the Internet. Shabaab fighters overran a police station […]
A Russian tugboat and its crew were seized off the coast of Somalia. The NATO fleet operating nearby has been informed of the attack. A roadside bomb killed eight civilians and wounded nine others when it exploded near a minibus full of passengers in Mogadishu. Medecins Sans Frontieres suspended its operations in Somalia after a […]
Shabaab and government troops clashed in Dinsor. The Islamic Courts rejected talks with the government. The president of Uganda said his country can deploy more forces to Somalia.
Sheikh Suulay, the spokesman for the Islamic Courts, said Ethiopian withdrawal from Mogadishu is a victory and their forces would still be attacked. The Islamic Courts killed the government spokesman for Mogadishu. African Union troops are deploying throughout the capital.
Clashes in Mogadishu resulted in 17 Somali and 2 Ethiopian solders killed. The Ethiopian Army withdrew its 1,000-man force from a military base east of Beletwein in Hiran province. Heavy fighting between Somali troops and Shabaab terrorists has been reported in Hiran.