What the records say
- When
- 10 Mar 2012
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 2.04° N, 45.34° E
- Description
- part of the War in Somalia (2009–present)
Placed at the middle of related events.
Battle of Yurkud (2012)
Part of the War in Somalia (2009–present)
The Battle of Yurkud was a three-hour-long military engagement on 10 March 2012 fought between Ethiopian military forces and al-Shabab militants approximately 40 km from the Ethiopian border. According to Ethiopian sources, al-Shabab initiated the engagement with an attack on a military base in Yurkud at around 6 a.m. Fighting continued for three hours before, as locals report, al-Shabab was forced to retreat.
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