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Female soldiers join the army ranks in Somalia

Abdi Guled · May 28, 2014 4:39 pm

Somali soldiers gather around the dead body of an Al Shabab fighter who was killed during an attack on Somalia's parliament, Saturday, May 24, 2014. Militants in Mogadishu on Saturday carried out a multi-pronged, complex attack against the country's parliament building involving a car bomb, suicide bomber and gunmen on foot, police said. Several people were killed, including six attackers and one soldier who tried to stop a suicide bomber from entering the building, said police Capt. Mohamed Hussein. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Militants attack parliament building in Somalia

Abdi Guled · May 24, 2014 5:53 pm

A Somali police officer looks at the wreckage of the car in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, April, 21, 2014. . A Somali police official said a legislator in the country's parliament has been killed in the car bomb explosion in the Somali capital on Monday. Capt. Mohamed Yusuf said Monday that Isaq Mohamed Rino was killed after a bomb planted under his car exploded in Mogadishu's Hamarweyne neighborhood. The blast also wounded another lawmaker, Mohamed Ali, who was traveling with Rino in the car. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somali lawmaker shot and killed in latest attack

Abdi Guled · April 22, 2014 10:10 am

Offensive in Somalia sees militants flee 5 towns

Abdi Guled · March 11, 2014 5:54 pm

Car bomb kills 11 at tea shop in Mogadishu

Abdi Guled · February 27, 2014 8:06 am

Somalis gather near the wreckage of one of the vehicles used for a car bomb, following a militant attack on the presidential palace in Mogadishu, Somalia Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Nine al-Shabab militants wearing military fatigues and carrying guns and grenades died after attacking the presidential palace with two car bombs on Friday, in an assault the president called a "media spectacular" by a "dying animal." President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was unharmed, but two government officials were killed, the interior ministry said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somali army invading Mogadishu homes after attack

Abdi Guled · February 24, 2014 12:59 pm

Stop! Somali traffic police try to restore order

Abdi Guled · February 19, 2014 8:26 am

A Somali soldier walks near the destroyed building in Mogadishu, Somali , Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. Police in Somalia say a car bomb explosion near Mogadishu's airport has killed at least three people and wounded five. Police Capt. Mohamed Hussein said the blast Thursday was detonated by remote control at the city's busy airport junction. He blamed the militant group al-Shabab. Hussein said three people were killed.(AP Photo?Farah Abdi Warsameh)

UN targeted: Car bomb blast kills 6 in Somalia

Abdi Guled · February 14, 2014 1:47 am

Ikran Hassan, 7, who was wounded in a mortar attack, receives treatment at the Madina Hospital in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. Mortar fire from Islamic extremists has pummeled large parts of the Somali capital two nights this week, raising fears among residents of a return to the days of constant conflict and prompting government and security officials to spring into action. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

New barrages of mortar fire rattle Mogadishu

Abdi Guled · February 5, 2014 3:44 pm

Slain Shabab member was in group’s intel unit

Abdi Guled · January 27, 2014 4:18 pm

Somali militant killed in missile attack

Abdi Guled · January 26, 2014 8:19 pm

Kenya, Somalia in dispute over violent port city

Abdi Guled · June 14, 2013 3:10 pm