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Somalia conflict timeline since 2011

April 14, 2013 17:00
Key events in Somalia since the Islamist Shebab militia was expelled from the capital in 2011: 2011 - August: Most of the Al-Qaeda linked Shebab fighters pull out of the capital in the face of an offensive by troops of the African Union force. Famine is widespread in Mogadishu and many other parts of Somalia. - October 4: A suicide bomb attack on buildings of the Western-backed transitional government in Mogadishu kills at least 82 people. 2012

US buries two Civil War sailors , 151 years later

March 8, 2013 19:00
The remains of two sailors who died aboard a famed US Civil War ship were buried with full military honors on Friday, 151 years after their groundbreaking vessel fought a crucial battle. The skeletons of the unidentified crew members were recovered in 2002 off the coast of North Carolina, where the Union's USS Monitor went down in a storm in 1862. The extraordinary ceremony at Arlington national cemetery was held on the 151st anniversary of the naval battle that made the ship famous.

Appeal judges overturn conviction of former Yugoslav army leader

February 28, 2013 11:15
THE HAGUE, Feb 28 (Reuters) - U.N. war crimes court judges on Thursday overturned the conviction of the former chief of staff of the Yugoslav army, acquitting him of charges of aiding and abetting crimes committed in Bosnia and Croatia during the Yugoslav wars.

UPDATE 1-U.S. urges lifting of UN arms embargo on Somalia-envoys

February 5, 2013 21:30
(Adds U.S. official, diplomats; paragraphs 6-7, 17) By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The United States is urging fellow members of the U.N. Security Council to agree to demands by the government in Mogadishu to lift the arms embargo on Somalia, which has been in place for the past 21 years, U.N. diplomats said on Tuesday.

U.S. urges lifting of UN arms embargo on Somalia-envoys

February 5, 2013 20:30
By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The United States is urging fellow members of the U.N. Security Council to agree to demands by the government in Mogadishu to lift the arms embargo on Somalia, which has been in place for the past 21 years, U.N. diplomats said on Tuesday.

Ending US combat ban will even career playing field, servicewomen say

January 24, 2013 00:15
* Servicewomen say they already serve in combat zones * Without combat ribbons, their careers are stunted * Critics say "social experiment" could compromise military By Jane Sutton Jan 23 (Reuters) - A Pentagon decision to lift a ban on women in front-line combat roles will remove an obstacle that stymied women's careers but had little meaning on modern battlefields with no clear front lines, U.S. military women said on Wednesday.

UPDATE 4-U.S. to lift ban on women in front-line combat jobs

January 23, 2013 18:00
* Decision to be announced on Thursday * Would be implemented by 2016, adds to Panetta's legacy * Military ended ban on gays, lesbians in 2011 (Adds context on women in combat elsewhere in the world) By David Alexander and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. military will formally end its ban on women serving in front-line combat roles, officials said on Wednesday, in a move that could open thousands of fighting jobs to female service members for the first time.
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