Tensions over alleged intelligence failures escalate as ISIL claims responsibility for deadly Easter Sunday blasts
Survivors of the Boko Haram massacre that took place around the town of Baga, Nigeria, describe the militants slaughtering some people "like insects".
Big crowds lined the route of London’s mass road race to cheer on 36 000 runners, may of whom wore black ribbons to honour the dead and wounded.
Nikiwe Bikitsha explains what it’s like to lose your sense of security in the US since the two bombings at the Boston Marathon.
Sectarian fault lines have intensified the political uncertainty and will decide the country’s fate. Jeremy Bowen reports.
Local mafia cartel the United Sacred Crown are alleged to be behind the bombing of a girls’ school in Italy which killed one and injured seven others.
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/ 27 December 2010
A parcel bomb was found at the Greek embassy in Rome on Monday, police said, just days after two explosive packages went off at two other embassies.
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/ 27 December 2010
Phillipine President Benigno Aquino said on Monday investigators have identified a suspect in the Christmas day bombing of a church.
A Nigerian court has denied bail to the brother of an alleged militant leader charged with kidnapping and bombings in Nigeria’s capital.
A bomb exploded on a bus in central Nairobi during a security search before it left for the Ugandan capital Kampala, killing three so far.
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/ 7 December 2010
The US, South Korea and Japan all urged China to help rein in its ally North Korea and vowed solidarity in defending Seoul from any further attacks.
Uganda has charged 32 people in connection with the July 11 bomb attacks in Kampala, which killed 76 people as they watched the Soccer World Cup.
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/ 8 December 2009
Five powerful car bombs rocked Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 127 people, including women and students.
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/ 27 October 2009
Al-Qaeda’s umbrella group in Iraq claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings in the heart of Baghdad that killed at least 155 people.
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/ 26 October 2009
Baghdad’s governor on Monday blamed negligence or even collusion by the security forces for Sunday’s deadly bombings.
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/ 25 October 2009
Twin car bombs targeting two government buildings killed at least 62 people and wounded 158 in central Baghdad on Sunday, police said.
A large bomb exploded outside the Indian embassy in central Kabul on Thursday, killing 17 people and wounding 76.
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/ 22 September 2009
Suspected Taliban militants bombed a primary school on the outskirts of Peshawar on Tuesday, underscoring the Islamist threat in northwest Pakistan.
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/ 2 September 2009
A powerful van bomb caused major damage on Wednesday to the Athens stock exchange.
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/ 1 September 2009
A radical Indonesian publisher has been declared a suspect in July’s deadly luxury hotel bombings in Jakarta, police said on Tuesday.
Iraq detained 10 senior security officers and tightened security across Baghdad on Thursday after two truck bombs in the capital killed 95 people.
A series of blasts in Baghdad on Wednesday killed 95 people and wounded 536 in Iraq’s bloodiest day this year.
Four people were killed in Baghdad on Friday in a series of bomb attacks aimed at Shi’ite pilgrims marking a key religious ceremony, an official said.
A string of powerful bomb attacks targetting Shi’ite Muslim worshippers in Baghdad on Friday killed 27 people, security officials said.
Spain went on maximum alert on Friday as ETA marked its 50th anniversary after two bombings this week blamed on the Basque separatist group.
Two major bombings in two days in Iraq have left scores of people dead and sparked new security concerns as United States forces prepare to pull out.
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/ 24 February 2009
Egyptian security services believe an Islamist cell carried out a nail-bomb attack near a popular tourist site in Cairo that killed a French teenager.
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/ 23 February 2009
Police said on Monday they have arrested three suspects over the bombing of a famed Cairo bazaar that killed a French teenager and wounded 25 people.
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/ 18 December 2008
UK will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing on Sunday, recalling with horror the night a US-bound jet was blown out of the sky.
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/ 11 December 2008
At least 45 people were killed and 93 wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a restaurant near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday.
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/ 10 December 2008
More than 100 countries last week signed a convention banning the use of cluster bombs. In Laos their lethal legacy is a part of daily life.
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/ 26 November 2008
President Hamid Karzai has criticised the US and other foreign countries for creating a ”parallel government” in Afghanistan’s countryside.