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‘HUGE BLAST’

Brit Killed During al-Shabab Hotel Siege in Somalia

Jihadists were said to have stormed the hotel in Mogadishu on Sunday.

Dan Ladden-Hall

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DEADLY ATTACK

73 Dead in Truck Bombing at Busy Market in Somalia

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack at a security checkpoint near a busy market that killed mostly university and other students going to class.

Barbie Latza Nadeau

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IT NEVER ENDS

8 Dead, Scores Inured in Twin Attacks in Mogadishu, Somalia

The al-Qaida-linked extremist group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility.

Barbie Latza Nadeau

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NOT AGAIN

At Least Four Dead in Al-Shabaab Attack in Mogadishu

Al-Shabaab used a suicide car bomb to attack a government compound in the Somalia capital on Saturday morning.

Barbie Latza Nadeau

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NIGHTMARE

The American Found in the Mogadishu Rubble

Ahmed Abdikarim Eyow had wanted to get back to his Somali roots and thought he’d be safe in the country’s capital. He was one of more than 250 slain.

Christina Goldbaum

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LOOSE LIPS SINK ....

Trump Revealed Intel on Worst Threat to Planes Since 9/11

‘The U.S. intelligence and diplomatic communities are going to be cleaning up after this blunder for a long time,’ an ex-European intelligence official says.

Clive Irving

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Shadow War

1st Combat Death Since ‘Black Hawk Down’

U.S. forces have been quietly operating in Somalia for years. Now, one of them has fallen.

Kimberly Dozier

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Heroes

Black Hawk Down’s Long Shadow

Twenty years later, the battle still echoes in America’s top policy circles. As the U.S. sets foot in Somalia again, men who fought in 1993 tell Daniel Klaidman what still haunts them.

Daniel Klaidman

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Reliving History

“It’s Too Soon”

Twenty years after Black Hawk Down and after more than a decade of fighting around the world, novelist Lea Carpenter considers the stories we tell about war—and how we struggle to shape meaning and narrative.

Lea Carpenter

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Longreads

The Week’s Best Reads

The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week.

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Trailblazing

Somalia’s Fierce Daughter

She’s a doctor, a newlywed, a fighter of terrorists in Somalia, and a lover of American shower heads. The strange life of Dr. Deqo Mohamed.

Abigail Pesta

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