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4 days ago · The Battle of Mogadishu was part of the larger military operation known as Operation Gothic Serpent, which aimed to capture Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. U.S. Special Forces and Rangers were involved in this operation, and they faced intense resistance from Aidid’s militia.
5 days ago · January 26, 1991: President Mohamed Siad Barre is ousted. A power struggle between clan warlords kills or wounds thousands of civilians. June 1991: Five months after the fall of Somalia's central government, President Hassan Guled Abtidon of Djibouti invited Somalia's warring factions for talks for the first time in Djibouti. July 1991: A ...
2 days ago · Among these was the Battle of Mogadishu in October 1993, part of an unsuccessful operation by U.S. troops to apprehend Somali National Alliance faction leader Mohamed Farah Aidid. UN soldiers eventually withdrew altogether from the country on March 3, 1995, having incurred more significant casualties.
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5 days ago · Among these was the Battle of Mogadishu in October 1993, part of an unsuccessful operation by U.S. troops to apprehend Somali National Alliance faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid. UN soldiers eventually withdrew altogether from the country on March 3, 1995, having incurred more significant casualties.
5 days ago · CAIRO/DUBAI: Sudan’s army said on Thursday it would deliver a “harsh response” to an attack a day earlier on a village by the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces that pro-democracy ...
5 days ago · The UN sent in a coalition peacekeeping/making and humanitarian force in 1991. While originally appreciative, the Somali people eventually began to resent foreign intervention. Mohamed Farrah Aidid was the leader of the strongest of the warring clans, and took control of the capital, Mogadishu.
5 days ago · Farrah, who reported information about the suspects online the day after the murders implicating the two cousins , gave him Abdisalan’s address. Before ending the call, Asse asked Farrah if he knew Mahdi’s last name to which he replied, “No, I do not know his name at all.” On June 14, 2010, detectives interviewed Mohamed Farrah.
