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At least five people are killed and eight others are injured in a series of roadside explosions in Kahda District, Mogadishu, Somalia. The local government blames jihadist group Al-Shabaab due to its frequent targeting of civilians.
2024-09-14

Four people are killed by a suicide bomber at a checkpoint in Mogadishu, Somalia. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack.
2022-05-11

Al-Shabaab, an ally of Al-Qaeda, claims responsibility for the suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, that killed nearly 90 people.
2019-12-30

At least 276 people are killed when a lorry filled with explosives detonates outside a hotel in the capital Mogadishu, becoming the worst terrorist attack in Somalia's history.
2017-10-14

The first of seventy British military personnel arrive in Somalia to help combat the threat of Islamist militants. The remaining troops will join the United Nations peacekeepers and AMISOM soldiers in countering Al-Shabaab later on this year. This deployment is part of a greater effort by the United Kingdom to target terrorism.
2016-05-2

Kenyan Air Force planes attack the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab killing 80 of its fighters according to the African Union force in Somalia.
2014-06-23

A car bombing in the center of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, kills at least 10 people and injures 20 others.
2013-03-18

African Union and Somali troops advance on Mogadishu's Bakara market, a rebel-held area, amid intense fighting.
2011-05-22

Ten Somalis go on trial in Germany for attacking a German ship in the country's first pirate trial in 400 years.
2010-11-22

Somali pirates hijack a South Korean owned Kenyan registered fishing boat with 43 crew aboard.
2010-10-17