索马里总统谢赫·谢里夫·谢赫·艾哈迈德星期三在军队对抗伊斯兰激进分子的战斗中在首都亲临战场视察。
目击者和官员称，谢里夫总统身着军队迷彩服，同索马里政府军和非洲联盟维和人员在一起。
一名总统助理说，谢里夫随身佩戴着AK-47步枪。
星期三晚上，政府军与青年党反叛分子在摩加迪沙交火，至少七人丧生。
谢里夫没有在战斗中受伤，但一名记者对美国之音索马里语组说，一枚迫击炮弹落在距离总统大约三百米的地方。
Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed joined his troops on the front lines Wednesday night as they fought Islamist militants in the capital.
Witnesses and officials say the president, dressed in military fatigues, was stationed with Somali government forces and African Union peacekeepers.
One presidential aide said Mr. Sharif was armed with an AK-47 rifle.
At least seven people were killed in Mogadishu late Wednesday as government forces traded shell and gunfire with al-Shabab insurgents.
Mr. Sharif was unhurt in the fighting, but a journalist told VOA’s Somali Service that a mortar shell landed about a third of a kilometer away from the president.