Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist fighters attacked government positions near the president's palace in a third day of fighting as the death toll hit 60, residents and a human rights group said on Friday.

Source: UNHCR UNHCR expresses concern about the worsening situation for thousands of civilians in Somalia amid fresh fighting in Mogadishu and elsewhere.

Frightened Somalis stacked household goods on carts pulled by donkeys and fled the heaviest fighting the capital has seen in almost a year Friday, after hundreds of heavily armed insurgents moved

Frightened Somalis stacked household goods on carts pulled by donkeys and fled the heaviest fighting the capital has seen in almost a year Friday, after hundreds of heavily armed insurgents moved into an area this week previously controlled by government soldiers.

Mogadishu/Geneva - The mayor of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday urged civilians to flee as heavy fighting continued between government forces and Islamist insurgents. The fighting began Wednesday afternoon when insurgents pushing to topple the...

The UN's refugee agency says that more than 100 000 people have been forced to flee their homes across Somalia since the start of the year amid "relentless and indiscriminate" fighting.

HUNDREDS fled Mogadishu as warring sides clashed for a third day, wounding 19 and flattening homes in the violence-wracked Somali capital.

Source: UNHCR UNHCR is extremely worried about the worsening situation for the civilian population in Somalia which is, once again, exposed to relentless and indiscriminate fighting in Mogadishu and elsewhere in ...

Somalia was today embroiled in some of its fiercest fighting for nearly a year as government troops shelled advancing rebels in the capital, Mogadishu.