An alleged Somali war criminal who fled to the United States has been working as a security guard at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. Mohamed Siad Barre (Somali: Maxamed Siyaad ...

Former ruler Siad Barre blamed for inciting sectarianism, a problem still plaguing Somalia. Twenty years ago the overthrow of Somali president Mohamed Siad Barre left the country in chaos.

Maj. Gen. Mohamed Siad Barre, who was overthrown as president of Somalia in 1991 after ruling that impoverished African country for more than 20 years, died on Monday in exile in Lagos ...

Its ruler, a major general named Mohamed Siad Barre, wasn`t exactly a George Washington. Somalia in 1974 became the first black African state to sign a friendship treaty with the Soviet Union ...

Under the authoritarian regime of President Mohamed Siad Barre, the Somali National Army and various paramilitary groups committed war crimes and acts of genocide against the Issaq clan in ...

Along with other armed opposition groups, they drove out President Mohamed Siad Barre's regime from Somalia's capital Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War that broke out in the early 1990s.

1969 - Mohamed Siad Barre assumes power in coup after the assassination of the elected president; he goes on to declare Somalia a socialist state and nationalises most of the economy. 1991 - The ...

1991 - The former British Somaliland declares unilateral independence as Somaliland following the ousting of Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre, which plunges the rest of Somalia into anarchy.

1969 – Mohamed Siad Barre leads a bloodless coup and becomes dictator. 1977-1978 – Somalia invades the Ogaden region of Ethiopia. Ethiopia rebels and weakens Somalia’s forces. The two ...

1969 - Mohamed Siad Barre assumes power in coup after the assassination of the elected president; he goes on to declare Somalia a socialist state and nationalises most of the economy. 1991 - The ...