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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Locals said the warlords were preparing to defend their last redoubt of Jowhar, 90 km (55 miles) north of the capital, including an advance line outside the town. "There are so many fighters and ...

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 ...

Warlords then turned on each other, plunging the country of seven million into chaos. The transitional government has been based in the Kenyan capital Nairobi since it was set up last year because ...

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 ...

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 ...

The attacks are imminent," Habeb told AFP by telephone from Jowhar, naming two powerful Mogadishu warlords behind the plot, according to him. "Mohamed Qanyare Afrah and Musa Sudi Yalahow are ...

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 ...

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 ...