• The Islamic Courts Union (Somali: Midowga Maxkamadaha Islaamiga) was a legal and political organization founded by Mogadishu-based Sharia courts during...
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    The 2006 Islamic Courts Union offensive is the period in the Somali Civil War that began in May 2006 with the Islamic Courts Union's (ICU) conquest of...
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  • Ethiopia, supported by the United States, invaded Somalia to depose the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) and install the Transitional Federal Government (TFG). The...
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  • Arabia Syariah Court, in Malaysia Islamic Revolutionary Court, a special system of courts in the Islamic Republic of Iran Islamic Courts Union, in Somalia...
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    Armed Forces, UNOSOM II, the Islamic Courts Union, the Ethiopian National Defence Forces, Al-Shabaab, the African Union Mission to Somalia and the Somali...
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    the Jubaland State of Somalia from 2013 to 2023. As a member of Islamic Courts Union (ICU) Madobe was governor of Jubaland, in 2006. When the ICU was...
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    Intelligence Agency in order to challenge the emerging influence of the Islamic Courts Union during the Somali Civil War. The leadership of the alliance consisted...
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    1998 and 2000. In late 2006, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, head of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) that then controlled much of southern Somalia, declared, "We...
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    early 1990s. In 2006, Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia to depose the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) and install the TFG. The ICU effectively disintegrated, and...
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  • warlords and businessmen to oppose the growing influence of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU). This led to the Second Battle of Mogadishu, which resulted...
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