MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia's government has launched a new disarmament campaign that has netted some 500 guns and sparked gun battles in a capital that is awash with weapons, said officials ...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA — A government-mandated disarmament program got underway here Tuesday without much of a bang. At one designated weapons drop-off point in the Somalian capital, bored-looking ...

Against a background of gunfire, a number of Somali clan warlords agreed on Fridayto disarm andenrol their forces inthe national army, creating aray of hope in a violence-torn land. As the ...

Somalia’s future hangs on whether the new ... Yusuf Abdullai recognize that the new government cannot succeed without disarmament, and an effort to be as inclusive as possible.

Somalia’s capital is less a city than a collection ... Asked about a government decree ordering national disarmament, he scoffed, “If you have two people and you take a weapon from one and ...

The Somali government on Saturday said it was indefinitely postponing a mandatory disarmament program, while Islamic fighters hiding in Mogadishu said they will heed an al-Qaida call for guerrilla ...

Launched last week, the Somali government's disarmament campaign is an attempt to reduce the number of weapons in the violence-prone city. The government says some 500 guns were recovered during ...

Surviving Black Hawk Down has reignited interest in the Black Hawk Down Incident, and here is why Americans were in Somalia in 1992 and 1993 and how it led to the Battle of Mogadishu and the ...