MOGADISHU — Somali government forces attacked a base of the Al Qaeda-linked Shebab Wednesday in a village near the Ethiopian border, sparking clashes that left at least 21 combatants dead, officials said.
"The fighting broke out in a village near Yed district after our forces attacked the terrorists," Colonel Mohamed Ali, a local government security official, told AFP.
Machine guns, artillery and anti-aircraft weapons were used in the fighting in Habow, a village near the border with the Shebab's arch-foe Ethiopia that lies northwest of the capital Mogadishu Read More
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