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A soldier guards the street after a suicide car attack near the Defense Ministry in Mogadishu on April 9, 2017. Mohamed ABDIWAHAB / AFP

Several Killed in Two Somalia Attacks

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 10, 2017 | World

A government official was killed by a bomb planted in his car in Somalia’s capital on Monday and a suicide bomber struck a military training camp, leaving at least three soldiers dead, a day after the army chief escaped an attack on his convoy. No one claimed...

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African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) soldiers patrol following a car bomb in the Wardhigley District south of Mogadishu on February 27, 2015. The bomb killed one person and injured another. AFP PHOTO/Mohamed Abdiwahab (Photo credit should read Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty Images)

Shabaab Bombings in Somalia’s Mogadishu Leave at Least 14 Dead

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 13, 2017 | World

At least 14 people were killed on Monday in two separate bombings in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The first was a car bombing near a hotel on a busy street in the capital. At least 13 people were killed, police and the emergency medical services said, hours after a...

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Somalia’s newly elected President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo and his wife Zeinab Abdi listen to speeches during his inauguration ceremony in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, February 22, 2017. /REUTERS

Somalia’s New President Calls on al-Shabaab to Surrender

by Khalid Mahmoud | Feb 23, 2017 | World

Cairo – Somalia’s new president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, widely known as Farmajo, officially took office on Wednesday, promising his people that the era of al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab and other Islamist militant groups was over. In his speech, Farmajo reached...

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A Somali government soldier walks near the scene of an explosion in front of Dayah hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, January 25, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

At Least 13 Killed in Extremist Attack on Mogadishu Hotel

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 25, 2017 | World

At least 13 people were killed after two car bombs exploded outside a popular hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu Wednesday and gunmen forced their way inside the building and opened fire, police said. The attack, claimed by the Al-Qaeda aligned Shabaab...