United Nations Operation in Somalia I
United Nations Operation in Somalia I was the first part of a United Nations (UN) sponsored effort to provide, facilitate, and secure humanitarian relief in Somalia, as well as to monitor the first UN-brokered ceasefire of the Somali Civil War conflict in the early 1990s.
UNOSOM Egyptian Fahd 240 APC
Australian soldiers prepare to board a US Marine Corps helicopter in Somalia
The Somali Civil War is an ongoing civil war that is taking place in Somalia. It grew out of resistance to the military junta which was led by Siad Barre during the 1980s. From 1988 to 1990, the Somali Armed Forces began engaging in combat against various armed rebel groups, including the Somali Salvation Democratic Front in the northeast, the Somali National Movement in the northwest, and the United Somali Congress in the south. The clan-based armed opposition groups overthrew the Barre government in 1991.
Major General Siad Barre, Chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Council and President of Somalia
A destroyed M47 Patton in Somaliland, left behind wrecked from the Somaliland War of Independence
Three knocked-out Somali National Army (SNA) M47 Patton medium tanks left abandoned near a warehouse, photographed by U.S. forces in December 1993
An American soldier at the main entrance to the Port of Mogadishu points to identify a sniper's possible firing position (January 1994).
