Battle of Mogadishu (November 2007)

Battle of Mogadishu (2007)
Part of the War and Insurgency in Somalia

Map of Somalia
DateNovember 8–16, 2007
Location
Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
Al-Shabaab

 Ethiopia

Somalia Transitional Federal Government
Casualties and losses
Unknown 9 Ethiopian soldiers killed[1]
6 TFG soldiers killed[2]
83 civilians killed[3]

The Third Battle of Mogadishu, in November 2007, was a series of confrontations in Mogadishu, Somalia in which 91 people died, mostly civilians killed by Ethiopian troops.[4][5] The battle is called the Third Battle, or will include the date, in order to distinguish it amongst the nine major Battles of Mogadishu during the decades long Somali Civil War.

  1. ^ Crowd drags Ethiopian corpse, echoing 1993 brutality - CNN.com
  2. ^ "Somalia: Two soldiers killed in an ambush attack in Mogadishu". Archived from the original on 2007-11-13. Retrieved 2007-11-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ BBC NEWS | Africa | Somalis flee Mogadishu fighting
  4. ^ BBC NEWS | Africa | Dozens die in Mogadishu reprisals
  5. ^ "Somalia: more than twenty cadavers found in some parts of Mogadishu". Archived from the original on 2007-11-12. Retrieved 2007-11-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)