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| Apr. 26 |
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Boeing Dreamliner returns to service   Map of Addis Ababa Ethiopia An Ethiopian Airlines 787 Dreamliner is due to take off from Addis Ababa, the first commercial flight by the aircraft since all 787s were grounded
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| Jan.25 |
Somalia |
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Navy SEALs rescue aid workers | U.S. special forces swooped into Somalia in a pair of helicopters in a daring overnight raid to rescue two kidnapped aid workers an American and a Dane | |
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| Oct.28 |
Ethiopia |
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 US launches drones from Ethiopia The US military has begun flying drone aircraft from a base in Ethiopia, as part of its fight against Islamist militants in Somalia
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| Jul.20 |
Somalia |
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 US to aid Islamist Somali areas The US has said it will send aid to famine-hit areas of Somalia controlled by the Islamist group al-Shabab
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| Jul.18 |
Minnesota |
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Man admits Somalia terror plot Omer Abdi Mohamed from Minnesota has admitted helping men of Somali origin travel to the country to join the al-Shabab militant group
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| Jul.12 |
Somalia |
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CIA aiding Somalia suspect interrogations CIA operatives have secretly traveled to Mogadishu to help interrogate terrorism suspects about operations in East Africa and Yemen
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| Jun.11 |
Washington |
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US hails death of al-Qaeda militant Hillary Clinton has said the death of top African al-Qaeda militant Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is a 'significant blow' to the group
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'African US embassy bomber dead' Map of Mogadishu Somalia Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, suspected of in the 1998 embassy bombings, has been killed by Somali government forces
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| Mar.14 |
Virginia |
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 Life sentences for Somali pirates Five Somali men convicted of attacking a US Navy ship they mistook for a merchant vessel have been sentenced to life in prison
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| Feb.26 |
Somalia |
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Americans detained pirate negotiators Before 2 pirate leaders departed the yacht where they held 4 Americans they left instructions: kill the hostages if we do not come back
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| Feb.22 |
Somalia |
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4 Americans slain by captors on yacht A round-the-world boating adventure ended tragically for Americans, whom pirates fatally shot after capturing their yacht in the Indian Ocean
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| Oct.12 |
Tanzania |
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Ex-Guantanamo inmate trial begins Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani accused of involvement in a US embassy bombing was part of an al-Qaeda group determined to kill Americans
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| Sep.27 |
Somalia |
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13 drown in rush for U.S. Navy aid
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| Aug.27 |
Virginia |
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Would-be pirate pleads guilty to attacking Jama Idle Ibrahim, a Somali man became the second person convicted in the U.S. of acts related to high-seas piracy in more than a century
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| Aug.17 |
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Judge throws out Somalis' piracy charge A federal judge threw out a piracy charge against six Somalis in the April attack on the USS Ashland naval ship in the Gulf of Aden
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| Aug.5 |
Washington |
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US charges 14 over al-Shabab ties
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| May.24 |
Somalia |
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U.S. destroyer frees ship from 50 pirates
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| Apr.22 |
Virginia |
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11 pirates brought to U.S. for prosecution
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| Apr.1 |
Seychelles |
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U.S. warship captures pirate mother ship
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| Nov.18 |
Somalia |
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U.S. ship thwarts second pirate attack Maersk Alabama that played a central role in a bloody hijacking drama last spring was attacked again
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| Sep.14 |
Somalia |
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Al-Qaeda Somalia suspect 'killed' US forces have 'likely killed' Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a top al-Qaeda suspect, during a US military raid
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| Apr.12 |
Somalia |
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Captain rescued, snipers kill 3 pirates U.S. Navy snipers fatally shot pirates holding Richard Phillips hostage after seeing one of the pirates 'had an AK-47 leveled at the captain's back'
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| Apr.11 |
Somalia |
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 Pirates hijack US-Italian vessel Somali pirates have hijacked a US-owned tugboat in the Gulf of Aden with 16 crew members on board - 10 of them Italians
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| Apr.8 |
Somalia |
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Drama as US crew recapture vessel Pirates hold ship's skipper. The destroyer USS Bainbridge has arrived on the scene where a U.S. freighter was hijacked off the Horn Africa
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US crew seized by Somali pirates| The pirates have hijacked Maersk Alabama with at least 20 crew on board, after what maritime officials described as a sustained night-time attack | |
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| Apr.30 |
Somalia |
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Air raid kills militants Aden Hashi Ayrow, the head of an al-Qaeda-linked group, has been killed in pre-dawn air strike in the central town of Dusamareb
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| Oct.29 |
Somalia |
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U.S. destroyer pursues pirates| The destroyer has entered Somali territorial waters in pursuit of a Japanese-owned ship loaded with benzene that was hijacked by pirates | |
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| Jan.8 |
Somalia |
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U.S. targets al Qaeda suspects | The AC-130 has attacked suspected al Qaeda targets in southern Somalia. Warplanes killed arge numbers of Islamic extremists in Hayi... | |
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