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A violent clash over the weekend between two clans in central Somalia has killed at least 55 people and injured another 155, residents and medical officials said on Monday. Somalia's federal ...
Mogadishu, Mar. 11, (dpa/GNA) – At least 17 people, including five militants, were killed in an attack by the Islamist militia al-Shabaab on a hotel in central Somalia, officials said on Tuesday ...
Dozens of fighters were killed in clashes on Monday in the southern tip of Somalia when al Shabaab militants tried to overrun three army bases, officials and the insurgent group said.
Just last month, al-Shabab militants attempted to overrun three army bases in southern Somalia, leading to a bloody clash between the group and Somali forces, Reuters reported.
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Major General Ibrahim Sheikh Muhydin, the Chief of Defence Forces of the Somali National Army (SNA), has visited soldiers injured during Monday's deadly clashes in Southern ...
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Somali army kills over 37 al-Shabaab terrorists in southern region Turkish president receives Somalia’s ports and marine transport minister IAEA confirms no rise in off-site radiation levels ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Two joint Somali-U.S. airstrikes killed 12 al Shabaab militants in central Somalia and destroyed a ship carrying weapons for the al Qaeda-linked group, the Somali government ...
Conflict-weary Somalia is a federation of five semi-autonomous member states – Puntland, Jubaland, Galmudug, Hirshabelle, and South West – and a central government in the capital Mogadishu.. Tensions ...
By Haley Britzky(CNN) — The US military killed five al-Shabaab militants in a “collective self-defense airstrike” in Somalia, US Africa Command announced Thursday.The strike was taken at the req ...