<span style="color: #222222;">In Somalia, 17 people were killed and more than two dozen wounded when a car bomb exploded in Mogadishu today.<br />''<br />''This is the latest deadly attack on Somalia's capital claimed by Al-Shabaab militants. The group is trying for more than a decade to topple the Somali Government. <br />''<br />''In a brief statement, Al-Shabaab said that the operation was carried out using a vehicle loaded with explosives which targeted a checkpoint along the airport road. <br />''<br />''The attack comes just over a week after 26 people were killed and 56 injured in a 12-hour attack by Al-Shabaab jihadists on a popular hotel in the southern Somali port city of Kismayo.</span><br />