A previously unexploded mortar shell went off as children were playing around it in a city in southern Somalia.

A mortar shell explosion near Qoryoley town in Somalia's Lower Shabelle region killed about 27 individuals, mainly children, and injured 53 on Friday, according to the state news agency.

In Somalia, over 20 people, most of them children and teens, were killed Friday in a southern town after an unexploded mortar shell detonated near where the victims were playing.

At least six people were injured when mortar rounds struck two residential neighborhoods in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Saturday, an official said. Ali Ahmed, a security official in a ...

At least four civilians were killed and nine others injured in Somalia on Thursday by mortar shells that were likely targeting peacekeeping force AMISOM's base at the airport in the capital ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Mortar shells slammed into the Somali capital late Monday, killing at least 12 people -- including a mother and her three children -- and wounding dozens in an ...

Twenty-two people, including two children, died in southern Somalia when mortar shells exploded, a local district official said on Friday. Abdi Ahmed Ali told a press conference that a blast ...

A dawn mortar fire was reported in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, targeting villages near the presidential palace and other vital areas.

Mortar shells slammed into a busy market in Somalia's capital Monday, killing at least 17 people as humanitarian agencies appealed to the international community to help.