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Somali pirates attack and seize an oil tanker off Mogadishu, taking 11 Pakistani crew members hostage.
2026-04-25

At least six people are killed and ten others are injured after a fresh outbreak of tribal violence in the Galgaduud region of Somalia.
2025-07-17

More than thirty IS–Somalia fighters are killed in airstrikes on positions in the Sheebaab area of the Cal Miskaad mountains in northern Bari Region, Puntland, Somalia. 
2025-02-13

Eight people are killed when a military plane crashes in Lamu County, Kenya, near the border with Somalia.
2023-09-19

A suicide bomber blows himself up at a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing three people and wounding several more. The restaurant was frequented by members of the security forces as it is near to a security agency.
2021-08-19

Al Shabaab militants have stormed two hotels in Somalia's capital Mogadishu killing at least 10 civilians.
2015-07-10

Farhan Jeemis Abdulle, a Somali journalist and well-known local reporter for Radio Daljir is shot and killed by an unidentified gunman in Galkayo while walking to his home district of Garsor. Puntland authorities arrived on scene to investigate the killing but no arrests have been made. Abdulle is the fifth journalist to be murdered in Somalia this year, and the second in Galkayo.
2012-05-3

The Hizbul Islam group in Somalia join forces with al-Shabaab.
2010-12-24

The Government of Somalia claims that 10 members of the al-Shabab militant group have been killed when bombs they were preparing went off prematurely in Mogadishu.
2010-08-22

Police in Denmark shoot a 28-year-old male Somali after he breaks into the Viby J home of Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist at the centre of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2005, and threatens his family with an axe.
2010-01-2