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Al-Shabaab bombs several businesses in the Tabelaha Sheikh Ibrahim neighborhood of Mogadishu, Somalia, targeting shops that had complied with the government's directive to install CCTV cameras.
2024-08-31

A suicide truck bombing at a security checkpoint in Mogadishu kills at least 79 people and injures 149 others. No group has claimed responsibility.
2019-12-28

A United States Navy SEAL is killed, becoming the first U.S. service member killed in Somalia since 1993, and three others are injured in a gunfight with al-Shabaab militants, west of Mogadishu.
2017-05-6

A vehicle filled with explosives detonates near a hotel in Mogadishu, killing at least six people and wounding four others.
2017-03-13

Al-Shabaab claims to have killed scores of African Union troops in a successful attack that captured a compound in Janaale, south of Mogadishu.
2015-09-1

Al-Shabaab Islamic militants storm the presidential palace in Mogadishu with heavy gunfire as government troops try to repel them.
2014-07-8

Eight people are dead after a suicide bomber rams an explosive-laden car into a convoy carrying Qatari officials through the center of Somalia's capital Mogadishu. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack.
2013-05-5

Two suicide bombers attack a restaurant in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and a security guard is killed in the attack.
2012-11-3

Militants attack Somalia's presidential palace in Mogadishu for the second night running.
2012-03-20

4 African Union peacekeepers from Uganda are killed during a mortar strike in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2010-08-30