Fighting between al-Shabab and government and African Union (AU) troops in the central Hiran region has left 18 people dead on both sides, the Somalian armed group has said. Al-Shabab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told the AFP news agency on Saturday that the deaths occurred after the group's fighters attacked a base of the AU force in Buloburde town, about 200km north of the capital Mogadishu. The casualties could not be immediately confirmed, but the al-Qaeda-linked fighters said the dead...