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Somali Civil War
The Somali Civil War is the armed conflict in Somalia that grew out of resistance to the military regime of Siad Barre in the 1980s and became general after his overthrow in 1991. Clan militias, foreign interventions, including the UN operations of 1992–1995 and Ethiopian forces, and later the Islamist group al-Shabaab have fought over a country that lacked an effective central government for much of the period.
Battles and settlements
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Somali Civil War. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/somali-civil-war
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