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An Al-Shabaab car bombing kills six people and injures 12 others at an army checkpoint near Somalia's parliament in Mogadishu.
2020-01-8

Somali Public Works Minister Abbas Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji is shot and killed inside his vehicle by security forces near the Villa Somalia in the capital Mogadishu, after mistaking him for a militant.
2017-05-3

A mosque under refurbishment in the Somalian capital Mogadishu collapses during Friday prayers resulting in at least 15 deaths.
2016-04-29

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

Canadian and Somali security forces probe for evidence that Mahad Ali Dhore, a former York University student, was part of the Mogadishu suicide bombings.
2013-04-15

Somali security forces kill two suicide bombers trying to infiltrate a meeting of 825 Somali elders discussing the country's new constitution in Mogadishu.
2012-08-1

A car bomb explodes in central Mogadishu, Somalia, injuring two people.
2012-03-21

A senior foreign commander is killed in a drone strike south of the Somali capital Mogadishu.
2012-01-22

The al-Shabaab rebel group in Somalia says it has called 11 truckloads of reinforcements to take over the capital Mogadishu after a week-long battle.
2010-08-27

Anti-government demonstrators, including women dressed in full hijabs brandishing AK-47 automatic rifles, march in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, protesting killings by the African Union Mission in Somalia.
2010-07-5