Mortar blasts rock Mogadishu
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A wave of pre-dawn mortar attacks pounded Mogadishu and killed at least 16 people on Tuesday in one of the most brutal bombardments since an Islamist movement was forced out of the Somali capital last month.
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Three people are killed in the heaviest explosions in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, this year.
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A series of blasts hit the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday, witnesses said, a day after Ugandan peacekeepers started arriving in the lawless Horn of Africa country.
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Several mortar bombs were heard landing in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf on Tuesday after Shi'ite rebels came under fierce U.S. bombardment overnight.
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Mortars were fired at Somali government troops and Ethiopian soldiers in the chaotic capital Mogadishu on Friday, Deputy Defense Minister Salad Ali Jelle said.
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A roadside bomb wounded at least 12 Somali soldiers in Baidoa and two people were killed in violence in Mogadishu on Saturday.
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Five mortar bombs struck northern Mogadishu on Monday, killing at least three people, wounding several others and flattening homes in the Somali capital's latest outbreak of postwar violence, witnesses said.
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Gunmen fired rockets near Mogadishu's airport on Wednesday, witnesses said, apparently heeding an Islamist call to fight African Union peacekeepers arriving to help the interim government restore order.
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A number of mortars are fired into Iraq's Green Zone, where the parliament and foreign embassies are based.
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Mortar bombs crashed into Mogadishu's international airport on Thursday and two government soldiers were killed in clashes with gunmen, in the latest attacks in and around the increasingly violent capital.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist fighters in the   Somali port city of Kismayo opened fire on Monday toward   residents burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to   protest against the Islamist takeover of the city hours before.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist fighters in the   Somali port city of Kismayo opened fire on Monday on residents   burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to protest against   the Islamist takeover of the city hours before.
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Grenade and mortar attacks killed three children on Saturday in fresh post-war violence in the Somali capital Mogadishu, residents said.
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KISMAAYO, Somalia, Sept. 25 -- Islamic fighters in this Somali port city opened fire Monday toward residents who were burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to protest the takeover of the city hours earlier by the Islamic Courts militia.
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At least seven mortar shells were fired at Mogadishu's airport Monday during a welcoming ceremony as Ugandan peacekeepers arrived in the Somali capital, a journalist who witnessed the attack told CNN.
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Grenade and mortar attacks killed three children on Saturday in the latest post-war violence in the Somali capital Mogadishu, residents said.
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Somalia's independent Shabelle media house said government troops surrounded its Mogadishu office on Tuesday and opened fire at the building, wounding a security guard.