8 Somalis killed in bomb blast aimed at a goverment official and shelling of radio station

8 killed in blast and shelling in Somali capital

Somali militant group shuts down activites of UN mine agency in Somali areas it controls

Somali militant group shuts down UN mine agency

Blast from old land mine kills 6 Somali children from same family; baby and parents survive

Land mine kills 6 Somali children in same family

Somalia Islamist militants execute 2 men accused of murder and adultery in lawless country

Somalia Islamist militants execute 2 men

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Witnesses say Islamist militants have executed two men accused by the fighters of murder and adultery.

Somali minister: Suicide bomber who attacked doctors’ graduation was Danish-Somali

Somali minister: Suicide bomber was Danish-Somali

Somali gov’t warns of suicide attack threat against airport, seaport, presidential palace

Somali gov’t warns of suicide attack threat

Somali militant group denies role in suicide blast that killed 22 at graduation ceremony

Somali militant group denies role in suicide bomb

Explosion at graduation ceremony in Somalia kills 5; several gov’t ministers in attendance

5 killed in Somali graduation ceremony explosion

Somali officials: Canadian and Australian journalists freed after being held more than a year

Somalia: 2 kidnapped journalists freed

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A Canadian and Australian journalist were freed on Wednesday after more than a year in captivity, Somali officials said.

Somali woman stoned to death for adultery, boyfriend given 100 lashes

Somali woman stoned to death for adultery

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A judge for an Islamic militant group in Somalia says a woman has been stoned to death and her boyfriend given 100 lashes for having an affair.

Somali judge who jailed pirates, Islamic insurgents killed on way out of mosque

Somali judge who jailed pirates, insurgents killed

43 Somalis rescued by EU warship after abandoned at sea handed to UN refugee agency

43 Somalis rescued by EU warship handed to UNHCR

Somalia roadside bomb attack kills infantry division commander in country’s north

Somalia bomb attack kills military commander

Insurgent mortars again target Somali president at airport; 5 killed in violence

Insurgent mortars again target Somali president

Militant firing squad kills 2 men accused of spying in Somalia

Firing squad kills 2 accused of spying in Somalia

Mortars fired at Somalia’s airport as president boards plane; at least 20 killed in battles

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Mortars fired by Islamic militants slammed into Somalia’s airport as the president was boarding a plane Thursday, sparking battles that killed at least 24 people when return fire hit residential areas and a market, officials said.

Shelling in Somali capital kills 16, wounds more than 25, ambulance service says

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Mortars slammed into Somalia’s capital Thursday, killing at least 16 people and wounding more than 25, Mogadishu’s ambulance service said.

Somali Islamist group orders 2 radio stations to stop broadcasts; no reason given

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A powerful Islamist group linked to al-Qaida on Wednesday ordered two radio stations in southwestern Somalia to stop broadcasts indefinitely.

Somali Islamist commander gunned down in capital as tensions within insurgency escalate

MOGADISHU, Somalia — An Islamist spokesman says gunmen have killed a senior member of Somalia’s insurgency in the country’s capital.

Official: Somali defense minister nabbed in Uganda

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s defense minister was seized Tuesday during a trip to the Ugandan capital in what the Somali president said was likely a “mistake” by Ugandan security forces.

Official: Somali state minister for defense nabbed in Uganda

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Gunmen seized Somalia’s state minister for defense Tuesday during a trip to the Ugandan capital, a Somali government spokesman said.

Somali insurgent groups’ rifts deepen as Islamist groups fight over port city, killing 12

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Fighting between rival Islamist factions on Thursday over control of a key Somali port city killed at least 12 people, most of them combatants, said witnesses and medical staff.

Splits in Somali insurgency deepen as Somali Islamist groups fight over port city, killing 5

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Fighting between rival Islamist factions over control of a key Somali port city killed at least five people on Thursday, residents and medical staff said, in the first concrete sign of a major split in the Islamist alliance threatening the fragile U.N.-backed government.

Extremist Somali group executes 2 Somali men by firing squad who were accused of espionage

MOGADISHU, Somalia — An extremist Islamic group has executed two Somali men in the country’s capital, accusing them of being spies for foreign organizations.

Mortars and missiles pound Somali capital; 13 civilians killed in battles

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Mortars and missiles pounded parts of the Somali capital on Monday, killing at least 13 civilians in two separate battles between Islamic militiamen and the African Union peacekeeping force, witnesses and officials said.

Fighting in Somalia’s capital kills 8, witnesses say

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Islamic insurgents attacked an African Union peacekeeping base Tuesday, sparking a battle that killed at least eight people and wounded more than a dozen, witnesses and officials said.

Somali extremists release video with crowds vowing allegiance to bin Laden

NAIROBI, Kenya — An Islamic insurgent group that controls much of lawless Somalia has released a video showing its members vowing allegiance to Osama bin Laden, training in dusty camps and slamming Somalia’s U.S.-backed president as a traitor.

Witnesses: 10 killed in Somali border town fight after insurgents attack government soldiers

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali insurgents attacked a town near the border with Ethiopia, killing at least 10 people, witnesses and officials said.

Somali official: 6 more UN vehicles missing after car bomb attacks kill 21 people

NAIROBI, Kenya — Islamic insurgents on Friday vowed to launch more attacks after using stolen U.N. cars in an assault on an African Union peacekeeping base in Somalia that killed 21 people. A Somali official said that six more U.N. vehicles were unaccounted for.

We need help, African Union envoy to Somalia says in wake of car bombs that killed 21 people

NAIROBI, Kenya — An African Union envoy pleaded for more international aid Friday to stabilize Somalia as the death toll from an attack by Islamic insurgents on an AU peacekeeping base rose to 21, making it the deadliest single assault on the peacekeepers since they arrived in 2007.