Heavy fighting yesterday in the Somali capital killed at least 20 people, the second day of fierce clashes as government forces tried to drive hardline Islamists out of their Mogadishu bases.

NAIROBI, Kenya - In a brazen show of power in Somalia's capital, Islamist rebels punished four men convicted of stealing cell phones and other items by cutting off a...

Somalia remains the world's most dangerous country for minority groups, followed by Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan and Myanmar, a leading human-rights group said Thursday. The five were in unchanged positions from last year's Minority Rights Group International's (MRG) list of countries where groups or peoples are most at risk of genocide.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Heavy fighting in the Somali capital killed at least 20 people on Thursday, the second day of fierce clashes as government forces tried to drive hardline Islamists out of their Mogadishu bases.

Source: Reuters * Fighting kills at least 20 in northern Mogadishu * Somali foreign minister hopes for stronger AU mandate * AU leaders in Libya debate beefing up peacekeeping force By Abdi Guled ...

HEAVY fighting in the Somali capital has killed at least 20 people, the second day of fierce clashes as government forces tried to drive hardline Islamists out of their Mogadishu bases.

By Abdi Guled

Fighting in the Somali capital has killed 25 people over two days, leaving corpses in the streets of a city where a bloody insurgency is intensifying, doctors and witnesses said Thursday.

ABU DHABI, July 2 (RIA Novosti) - A Yemeni court has begun the trial of 22 suspected Somali pirates, a local newspaper said on Thursday.