TFG and AMISOM victory Harakat al-Shabaab Mujahideen Hizbul Islam Transitional Federal Republic of Somalia ARS-D-TFG coalition Total: 641+ KIA

Al-Shabaab began its offensive after its spokesman said the group was declaring a "massive war" on troops sent by AMISOM, describing its 6,000 peacekeepers as "invaders".

[37] On 30 August, fighting was renewed when al-Shabaab fighters attempted to take a government barracks around Sigale in the capital's Hodan neighbourhood.

The ensuring action left six confirmed dead and sixteen wounded[38] and by the end of the month UPI reported that a mortar attack by al-Shabaab killed four Ugandan peacekeepers guarding the presidential palace in Mogadishu.

[40] Almost 14,000 of the displaced people left Mogadishu by the fifth entirely as fighting continued,[41] and by weeks end three more Somalis were killed and twenty-three wounded as five hundred shells pounded northern and southern parts of the capital.

[45] On 20 September, Islamic militants seized two radio stations in the capital,[46] and a suicide bomber blew herself up at the gates of the presidential palace in Mogadishu, slightly injuring two soldiers.

Outside the capital, Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa also made additional progress chasing al-Shabaab out of a few towns in the recent weeks.

[58] On 28 November, the president of Uganda Yoweri Museveni visited Mogadishu and urged the international community to provide more support for the government of Somalia.

[59] However, the next day at least fifteen people died and twenty-five injured after Islamist fighters attacked government positions in the northern part of the city.

[10] On 5 December, at least twelve more people and twenty others[clarification needed] were wounded as a result of heavy artillery exchange in one of the city's northern districts.

[74] A major explosion occurred on 21 February when a suicide car bomb detonated at a police post in the Hamar jajab district of Mogadishu.

[75] During 25 February, AMISOM and TFG forces took over Mogadishu junction Florence (Hararyale), Ged Je'el in the street of Wadnaha[76] and advanced to around 500 meters from Bakaara Market.

[citation needed] Two days into the battle, on 14 May, the al-Shabaab commander of Bakaara market, Abdifatah Mahamed, was killed together with his intelligence officer Abdiwahab Sheik Dole.

[84] On 15 May, heavy fighting occurred, causing more than 35 deaths,[85] including al-Shabaab commander of Hawlwadag district Ali Burhan "Ayatuulah".

[93] In an attempt on 25 May to open a second front and relieve some of the pressure from Bakaara market, around 300 al-Shabaab fighters attacked AMISOM and TFG bases in Bondere, Shingani and Scibis.

[97] Around 15 vehicles carrying foreign al-Shabaab fighters (of African origin and one truck of Pakistani and Yemenite) left Abdul Aziz district in Mogadishu heading to Afgoye on 30 May.

At the same time, al-Shabaab deployed fighters from Lower Shabelle and Bay region to the front line in Bakaara market in an attempt to put a halt to the offensive made by AMISOM and TFG.

[98] At 16:45 hours, al-Shabaab insurgents disguised as SNA (Somali Army) soldiers driving a white mini-van opened fire at AMISOM and Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a fighters at the "Dabka" base.

[117][118] The Somali Police Force took over the security of Km 4, Guriga Shaqalaha, Isgoyska Dabka and Makka Almukara roads on 6 June.

Musa Sambayo), were driving in a car carrying $40,000 in United States Dollars, as well as medicine, telephones, laptops and a South African passport in the Afgooye corridor, northwest of Mogadishu on 8 June 2011.

Somali Police Force claim he was killed when his niece from abroad, Haboon Abdulkadir Hersi Qaaf, acted as a suicide bomber.

[139] After becoming under increased pressure from SNA and AMISOM several al-Shabaab leaders including Fuad Mohamed Qalaf and Omar Shafik Hammami fled from Mogadishu on 4 August.

al-Shabaab leaders Sheikh Mukhtar Robow and Hassan Dahir Aweys are believed to have fled to Bakool region of Somalia.

[143][144] On the morning of Saturday 6 SNA and AMISOM were in control of most of the areas abandoned by al-Shabaab including Bakaara market, Mogadiscio Stadium and the avenues Sodonka and Warshadaha.

[150] Three employees (a nurse, a logistic officer and a driver) of Daynile Hospital in Mogadishu were kidnapped by al-Shabaab in the Huriwa district on 17 August.

[161] al-Shabaab attacked SNA and AMISOM bases in the former defense ministry, Gulwadayaasha military camp, Jale Siyad faculty and Ex-control Afgoye junction on 9 September.

As they advanced into the Daynile district al-Shabaab sealed off their retreat route and opened fire with rifles, belt-fed machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

Arcade Arakaza later said: -It was a classic envelope trap, with the Shabab drawing the peacekeepers deeper into their lair, sealing off the escape routes and then closing in from all sides.

In the evening al-Shabaab reinforced with fighters from Lower Shabelle, Bay and Bakool launched a counterattack that recaptured the strategically important Daynile police station.

At least 60 of the AMISOM soldiers killed in the ambush were put on display by al-Shabaabs spokesperson Ali Mohamud Rage in the Alamada area, 18 km outside Mogadishu.