New Somali alliance threatens war
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Islamists and opposition leaders join forces as they vow to remove Somalia's transitional government.
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Somalia&#39;s new president Abdullahi Yusuf is calling for outside help to restore security to the war-torn Horn of Africa country, which has been without a central government for 13 years.
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New fighting erupted on Monday   between Somali fighters loyal to defeated warlords and the   country's Islamists militias, taking the death toll to at least   60 since Sunday, residents and a hospital official said.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Dec. 13 -- With the Ethiopian government saying it is technically at war with Somalia's Islamic Courts movement, and the movement having declared holy war against Ethiopia, there is fear that an all-out conflict in the Horn of Africa may be unavoidable.
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The Islamic militia that controls much of southern Somalia dispatched thousands of troops Sunday to within nine miles of the border with Ethiopia, heightening fears that fighting would break out between the two sides.
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Ethiopia makes preparations for a conflict with Somalia's Islamist group, the prime minister says.
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NAIROBI, June 22 -- In another sign of trouble for Somalia's transitional government, fighting erupted Friday among hundreds of government soldiers belonging to two rival sub-clans.
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Artillery and gun battles broke out in Mogadishu for a second day running on Friday as a Somali government official said Islamist rebels had joined forces with thousands of foreign jihadists.
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The United States must move urgently to help deploy more international peacekeeping troops to Somalia, where a U.N.-supported government is under attack from radical Islamic insurgents, the government's prime minister said  yesterday.
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Ethiopia's decision to send troops into Somalia could give the weak Somali government its only fighting chance of bringing peace to the anarchic Horn of Africa country. But it could also be just the provocation Islamic militants need to build support for a guerrilla war.
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Troops stepped up security across the Somali capital Saturday after Islamists threatened to disrupt a peace conference, saying anyone who takes part "is sentenced to death."
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The inevitability of war hangs over Mogadishu, threatening to further destabilize the troubled Horn of Africa.
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About 100 Ethiopian troops crossed the border into Somalia on Saturday, witnesses said, the latest sign that Ethiopia might try to bolster this country&#039;s weak interim government as an Islamic militia gains increasing power.
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Somalia's warlords are re-emerging and pose a threat to humanitarian aid deliveries to the needy, the United Nations warned Wednesday, as the government struggles to quell growing unrest.
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Somalia's PM warns Islamists that Ethiopia and Kenya will help his government in case of attack.
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Somalia's Islamist movement threatened on Tuesday to wage war on more than 30,000 Ethiopian troops it said were in the Horn of Africa nation unless they left within seven days.
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BUUR HAKABA, Somalia  - Somali Islamist forces and pro-government troops dug in on Wednesday on either side of a frontline in the divided Horn of Africa nation which has this week slid closer to all-out war.