Two car bombs killed at least 17 people in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police said, while militant group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility.
A suicide car bomb was rammed into a hotel, Nasahablod Two, about 600 metres from the presidential palace, and then armed militants stormed the building, police said.
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Syria’s regime and rebels were locked in fierce fighting Sunday on Aleppo’s western edges, where 38 civilians have been killed in an opposition offensive to break a devastating government siege.
Rebels have unleashed a salvo of rockets, car bombs, and shells to break through government lines and reach the 250,000 people living in the city’s east.
Syrian state media onRead more