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Sunni Islam. The Somali National Alliance ( abbreviated SNA) was a political alliance formed in June 1992 by four different rebel groups that had been in opposition to the regime of Somali dictator Siad Barre. The alliance would include one of the two factions of the United Somali Congress (USC), the Somali Patriotic Movement (SPM), the Somali ...
The Somali National University was established in 1954 as Università Nazionale Somala, under Italian U.N. Trusteeship over Italy's former Italian colony in East Africa of Italian Somaliland. In 1960, Somalia became an independent nation in the Trust Territory of Somalia. It obtained official university status in 1969 and the language initially ...
Nov 10, 2021 · Hussein Farrah Aidid is a Desert Storm veteran who landed in Somalia during Operation Restore Hope. ... later, his faction, now called the Somali National Alliance, declared his son, Hussein ...
A former general and diplomat, he was the chairman of the United Somali Congress (USC) and later led the Somali National Alliance (SNA). In 1992, Aidid attacked American troops in the nation. He was one of the main targets of the Unified Task Force.
Yemeni Civil War (2015-present) Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen. Maghreb insurgency. Northern Mali conflict. Syrian Civil War. War in North-West Pakistan. Second Somali Islamist War. Military intervention against ISIL. American-led intervention in Syria.
Juba Valley Alliance. The Juba Valley Alliance ( JVA; Somali: Isbahaysiga Dooxada Jubba) is a political faction of the Somali Civil War. It was the primary opponent of the Somali Patriotic Movement (SPM) and the Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC) vying for the control of Kismayo and the Juba River valley, the area known as ...
The Bloody Monday raid ( Somali: Isniinta Dhiigii), also known as the Abdi House raid or Operation Michigan, was a US military operation [3] that took place in Mogadishu on 12 July 1993, during the United Nations Operation in Somalia II (UNOSOM II) phase of the UN intervention in the Somali Civil War. [4] [5] Carried out by American QRF troops ...
