A top US official on Friday denied reports of a boost in US military aid to Somalia's transitional federal government (TFG), and said there was no intention to "Americanize" the conflict in the horn of Africa. "We have provided limited military support to the TFG... (but) the US does not plan, does not direct, and does not coordinate the ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist fighters attacked government positions near the president's palace in a third day of fighting as the death toll hit 60, residents and a human rights group said on Friday. Witnesses said government forces backed by African Union troops launched a barrage of artillery fire to repel the al Qaeda-linked fighters. Meanwhile ...

Frightened Somalis stacked household goods on carts pulled by donkeys and fled the heaviest fighting the capital has seen in almost a year Friday, after hundreds of heavily armed insurgents moved into an area this week previously controlled by government soldiers. The battles that have killed ...