Mogadishu

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu warned on Dec. 28 against attempts to create a situation in Libya similar to that in civil war-torn Syria.

A car bomb exploded and killed at least 90 people in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, AFP reported.

The explosion occurred early this morning.

The death toll of a car bomb in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has risen to 90, with the number expected to continue rising, said Somali MP Abdirizak Mohamed, quoted by RIA Novosti.

AT least 80 people, including two Turkish nationals, were killed and many more wounded in a suicide truck bomb attack on a security checkpoint in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Dec. 28, said Turkey's envoy to the country.

A suicide truck bomb targeted a busy security checkpoint in Somalia's capital on Dec. 28 morning, killing at least 61 people, authorities said. It was one of the deadliest attacks in Mogadishu in recent memory.

The attack took place at the junction called Ex-Control Afgoye in a southwestern suburb of the capital during the morning rush hour of Dec. 28.

At the moment when the explosion was heard, Dacic was speaking with the president of Somalia, who "jumped up when the blast was heard."

The death toll from Friday's bomb attacks in Somalia's capital Mogadishu continues to rise.

AP reports that Somali hospital and police sources say the death toll has risen to 53 with over 100 injured.

Four car bombs by Islamic extremists exploded outside a hotel in Mogadishu, Friday afternoon.

CBS, NAIROBI, Kenya — At least six people were killed, including two children, after a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle outside a district headquarters in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, authorities said Sunday. Capt.

15 people were killed and ten were wounded in an explosion on a lively market in a small town north of the capital Mogadishu, a source from the security services said. "We have confirmed the deaths of 15 people and more than ten have been injured in the explosion," Mohamed Abdikarim, a local security chief, told AFP on the phone.

Turkey on Feb. 23 condemned the double car bombings in the Somalia capital Mogadishu, where at least 18 people were killed and 20 others wounded on Feb. 23.

 A suicide bomber disguised as a policeman blew himself up inside a police training camp in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Dec. 14 and killed at least 15 officers, officials said.