Rivals surrender weapons in Somalia
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Islamic militiamen struggled to keep up with a flow of former rivals ready to surrender prized weapons Thursday, further cementing the radical Muslims&#039; position as the undisputed power in the Somali capital.
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LIMA, Peru  - The leader of a 200-strong armed  group that killed four policemen and seized part of a southern  Peruvian town in demanding the president resign said it will  hand over its weapons on Monday.
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Hundreds of Islamic militiamen in heavily armed trucks headed Saturday to the strategic town of Kismayo in what appeared to be an imminent takeover attempt of one of the last seaports outside their control in Somalia, witnesses said.
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LIMA, Peru  - An armed group that seized a police  station and parts of a southern Peruvian town four days ago  demanding the resignation of President Alejandro Toledo agreed  to surrender on Tuesday, police said.
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East African leaders hastily turned a   high-level summit on Somalia into informal talks on Tuesday,   after rival powers in the lawless nation cut a deal to join   their military forces in a separate diplomatic effort.
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Embattled Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi submitted a letter of resignation Monday to President Abdullahi Yusuf, apparently losing a long-brewing power struggle and throwing the government of the war-battered Horn of Africa nation into disarray.
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Militia fighters in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City are to begin surrendering their mortars, grenades, machine guns and other weapons Monday under an accord with the interim Iraqi government, both sides announced Saturday.
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MOGADISHU -- Leaders of the Islamic militia controlling much of Somalia ordered the handover of all unauthorized weapons yesterday but did not say how it would enforce the directive in a heavily armed country amid fears of a regional war. The directive, issued by senior Islamic leader Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed and announced on local radio stations, applies to all ...
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About 200 militant supporters of a renegade tribal chieftain blamed for attacking security forces and the country's main gas pipelines surrendered to authorities in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, an official said.
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Gunmen loyal to Somalia's interim   government battled local militias in its temporary capital of   Baidoa on Monday, in clashes that killed at least five gunmen   and wounded seven, officials and witnesses said.
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NAJAF, Iraq - A rebel cleric's militiamen kept their guns outside a holy site Friday after issuing a surprise offer to give up control of the Imam Ali Shrine to Shiite Muslim religious leaders, but negotiators wrangled into the night over getting the militants out of the compound.    The removal of weapons and pledge to hand over keys to religious authorities was seen as a big step toward a resolution of the two-week faceoff in Najaf that has killed dozens of people and wounded hundreds in fighting between Muqtada al-Sadr's militia and a joint U.S.-Iraq force...
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Islamic militia that had moved near the base of Somalia's weak interim government will pull back, a senior official said Thursday.
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Battered Somalia is trying to reconcile its warring factions. But mortar attacks, boycotts and an expiring peacekeepersâ mandate leave little room for optimism.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 6 -- More than a dozen mortar shells slammed into Mogadishu's airport Tuesday shortly after the first major contingent of Ugandan peacekeepers landed there, and a deadly gun battle ensued as authorities searched nearby houses for suspects.
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At least five foreign suspected militants surrender to Kuwaiti security forces, state TV reports.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist fighters in the   Somali port of Kismayo opened fire on Monday on residents who   were burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to protest   against the Islamist takeover of the city hours earlier.
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An East Timor rebel leader said on  Saturday his followers have surrendered all their weapons, but  the tiny country&#039;s foreign minister believed other renegade  groups were still armed.