Two alliance members, warlords Musa Sudi Yalahow and Bashir Raghe Shirar, are holed up with Abgal elders and have warned they will attack the Islamists if they attempt to take Jowhar or seize the ...

Islamic militia have captured the Somali town of Jowhar as fighters from a US-backed alliance of warlords flee one of their last strongholds in the war-ravaged country. Heavily-armed gunmen loyal ...

Jowhar - Three United States-backed Somali warlords on Tuesday fled their last remaining stronghold of Jowhar, to where they had escaped after being routed in Mogadishu by Islamic fighters ...

Hours after the Islamic militia attacked the town of Jowhar from three directions, the warlords' remaining forces fled east, some in pickup trucks with rooftop-mounted machine guns. Militiamen ...

The warlords' fighters took up defensive positions in the strategic town of Jowhar, 60 miles northwest of Mogadishu. Jowhar is controlled by alliance leader Mohamed Dheere, who was believed to be ...

Somali Islamic fighters have captured the town of Jowhar from warlords a week after driving them from the capital, Mogadishu, 90km to the south. The militia loyal to the Union of Islamic courts ...

Jowhar - Three US-backed Somali warlords on Tuesday fled their last remaining stronghold of Jowhar, to where they had escaped after being routed in Mogadishu by Islamic fighters, an AFP correspondent ...

Militiamen obeying orders of different warlords are arriving in the Jowhar area, a central Somali town that President Yusuf controversially chose as the country's temporary capital earlier this year.

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA - Days after winning control of Mogadishu, an Islamist militia advanced on Friday toward the last stronghold of secular warlords, Jowhar. The warlords are widely believed to be ...

The two camps held rival rallies in the city as hundreds of Islamists camped outside the warlords’ last stronghold of Jowhar, about 90 kilometres north of Mogadishu, awaiting orders to attack ...

Earlier this month, President Yusuf told the BBC he would be bringing troops and militia with him. Warlords from the capital Mogadishu have threatened to attack Jowhar if he establishes the government ...

Warlords driven out of Mogadishu by Islamist militia are advancing back towards the Somali capital from their last stronghold of Jowhar, residents said today. The residents said the Islamists were ...