A Somali government soldier in plain clothes look at the body of an alleged Al-Shabab fighter who was killed during clashes with Somali government forces in southern Mogadishu, Som...
AP Photo/ Farah Abdi Warsameh
Islamist insurgent fighters take positions during clashes with Somali government soldiers and African Union peacekeepers in southern Mogadishu's Hodon neighborhood. Fighting in Som...
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EIGHT CARGO VESSELS from Gujarat are captured off the coast of Somalia; 97 crew missing. Dhows were transporting goods between Somalia, UAE.
Somali government soldiers cross a street during heavy fighting with Islamist insurgents in northern Mogadishu, Somalia. Islamist insurgents and government forces battled for a sec...
AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh
World Press Photo Contest 2010: 2nd Prize General News Stories
Forty eight-year-old Mohamed Abukar Ibrahim is stoned to death by militants from the Hizb Al-Islam group in Afgoye,...
AP Photo/ Farah Abdi Warsameh
World Press Photo Contest 2010: 2nd Prize General News Stories
Forty eight-year-old Mohamed Abukar Ibrahim is stoned to death by militants from the Hizb Al-Islam group in Afgoye,...
AP Photo/ Farah Abdi Warsameh, File
World Press Photo Contest 2010: 2nd Prize General News Stories
Forty eight-year-old Mohamed Abukar Ibrahim is stoned to death by militants from the Hizb Al-Islam group in Afgoye, ...
AP Photo/ Farah Abdi Warsameh
World Press Photo Contest 2010: 2nd Prize General News Stories
Forty eight-year-old Mohamed Abukar Ibrahim is stoned to death by militants from the Hizb Al-Islam group in Afgoye,...
AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh
A wounded man being assisted after an explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia. Three Somali Cabinet ministers are among nine people killed in a bombing that ripped through a university gra...
AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh
Dead bodies lay near a street in southern Mogadishu's K4 junction. Scores of people were killed in fighting that pitted Islamist insurgents against government forces and African Un...
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A young member of an Islamic militia group leads the way with other fighters as they patrol in southern Mogadishu
Al Qaeda treats its continuing jihad as a global intifada where Afghanistan is seen as the core of the battle, Algeria is treated as the Western front and Somalia as its southern front