Somali rebels said last night they had captured the country's second-largest city after 'an all-out offensive' that prompted many government troops to defect to their side.

During the 1990s Ethiopia invaded Somalia several times to attack the Islamic Union, who were helping Somali rebels in Ethiopia.

He was a teenage soldier fighting for the Somali rebels, weighed down by heavy weapons as bombs exploded around him.

As they are talking they run into a group of Somali rebels that ask where all the beautiful women in their town are.

Since Asad had mentioned where the fish came from, the Somali rebels had come for him.

Under the terms of the agreement, Somali rebels who had been given refuge and arms in Ethiopia were sent back home to Somalia.

That year, his unit was deployed to Northern Kenya to fight against Somali rebels in the Shifta War.

What is wrong with these Somali rebels??!!

Egypt armed Somali separatist rebels in Ethiopia during and since the Somalia invasion of Ethiopia in the 1970s.

These policies culminated in the Shifta War between Somali rebels and the Kenyan police and army.