MOGADISHU - Gunmen attacked a hotel in a town in central Somalia on Tuesday where local elders and government officials were meeting and laid siege to the hotel, witnesses and relatives told Reuters.

Al Shabaab claims responsibility for a deadly hotel siege in Baladweyne, Somalia, escalating regional tensions.

Gunmen attacked a hotel in Baladweyne, Somalia, amid a gathering of local elders and officials. Federal lawmaker Dahir Amin ...

This morning, an explosion struck a house in Beledweyne, the capital of the Hiran region, where government officials, leading traditional elders, and other military officers were having a meeting on ...

Local elders had been holding talks with government officials in the building on how to counter the militant group.

Gunmen attacked a hotel in central Somalia's Beledweyne, targeting local elders and government officials. The assault, ...

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Gunmen stormed a hotel in the town of Baladweyne in central Somalia on Tuesday where local elders and government officials ...

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Gunmen stormed a hotel in the town of Baladweyne in central Somalia on Tuesday and a siege was ongoing, two witnesses told Reuters. Dahir Amin Jesow, a federal lawmaker from Baladweyne, said so far at ...