Battle of Mogadishu (November 2007)

Battle of Mogadishu (2007)
	Part of the War and Insurgency in Somalia
	; Map of Somalia with Mogadishu
Date	November 8–16, 2007
Location	Mogadishu, Somalia
Result	Indecisive
Belligerents
Hizbul Shabaab; Hawiye clan militiamen	Ethiopia; Transitional Federal Government
Casualties and losses
Unknown	9 Ethiopian soldiers killed; 6 TFG soldiers killed
	83 civilians killed

The Third Battle of Mogadishu, in November 2007, was a series of confrontations in Mogadishu, Somalia in which 91 people died, mostly civilians killed by Ethiopian troops. The battle is called the Third Battle, or will include the date, in order to distinguish it amongst the nine major Battles of Mogadishu during the decades long Somali Civil War.

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