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An al-Shabaab member blows himself up outside a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing three guards and two security forces. Six gunmen then stormed the hotel in 13-hour siege, causing a gunfight with the army in which three soldiers and the six attackers are killed. Twenty-seven other people are wounded.
2024-03-14

One soldier is killed and six others are injured in a suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2022-09-25

At least ten people have been killed in a shootout between jailed Al-Shabaab militants and security officers at a prison in Mogadishu, Somalia. An investigation is under way into how the militants obtained weapons, with some reports suggested that an inmate disarmed a warden and then a group of them raided the armoury.
2020-08-11

At least 11 people are killed following an explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2019-03-28

Al-Shabaab militants attack a military base outside the Somalian capital Mogadishu, with 15 soldiers reported dead.
2017-09-29

Five soldiers and a military officer are killed in an explosion in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
2013-12-27

Nineteen people are killed in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, in suicide bombings and firefights between Al-Shabaab militants and government forces.
2013-05-8

A suicide bomber kills 14 people by detonating explosives at a cafe frequented by politicians and journalists in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2012-09-20

AMISOM troops raid Islamist hideouts in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
2012-01-20

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