Somalia is, for most Americans, known only as the location of the disastrous 1993 Battle of Mogadishu depicted in 2002's Black Hawk Down. But the east African country has also become the site of ...
Traditionally, US presidents have been wary of intervening in Somalia since 18 special forces soldiers died fighting militias in Mogadishu in 1993, a battle dramatised in the film Black Hawk ...
The possibility of increased US military involvement in Somalia recalls Washington’s humiliating defeat by local militias in the 1993 battle of Mogadishu. Three police officers and a civilian were ...