Battle of Mogadishu (March–April 2007)

Battle of Mogadishu (2007)
	Part of the War in Somalia
	; Mogadishu skyline during the fighting in March 2007
Date	21 March – 26 April 2007
Location	Mogadishu
Result	Ethiopian/TFG offensive fails, insurgency escalates
Belligerents
Popular Resistance Movement (PRM); Hawiye clan militia	Ethiopia; Somalia; Uganda
Casualties and losses
427 killed; 150 captured	11 killed; (Somalia); 37 killed; 68 wounded; (Ethiopia); 1 killed; 5 wounded; (Uganda); 1 Mil Mi-24 helicopter gunship shot down; 2 tanks damaged
	Civilian casualties:; 1,176 Somali civilians killed (Hawiye claim) 4,600 Somali civilians wounded ; 11 Belarusian killed

The Battle of Mogadishu (March – April 2007) was a major military engagement between the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) and allied Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces on one side, and a coalition of Somali Islamist insurgents and clan militias fighting under Muqawama (Resistance) umbrella on the other.

Launched to deliver a decisive blow against the insurgency opposing Ethiopia’s military occupation, the offensive failed to achieve its objectives, and insurgent strength subsequently increased. The battle saw the use of ENDF tanks, artillery and airstrikes from helicopter gunships within the city, which were used indiscriminately in densely populated areas. Intense urban combat inflicted heavy damage on roughly one-third of Mogadishu’s buildings and much of the city’s economic infrastructure. Time magazine described the battle as “some of the most savage fighting” the capital had ever witnessed.