Somalia's parliament pleaded Saturday for its neighbors and the international community to intervene militarily as Islamist militants took control of a key neighborhood here in the capital, extending an assault that has killed several top government officials in recent days and weakened the government's already tenuous hold on power.
"We ask urgent military intervention in 24 hours from our neighboring countries," Sheik Adan Mohamed Nor, the speaker of parliament, said in a news conference.
The call for help on Saturday came during heavy fighting in the city, which eyewitnesses said had left at least 18 dead.
The New York Times
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