Suicide Attacks

The attacks were the worst act of violence to hit the country in the decade since the end of a bloody civil war that killed up to 100 000 people

There have been no claims of responsibility for the suicide bombing, although authorities believe jihadi group Boko Haram is responsible

Abu and Gardere worked as teachers in Somalia before joining Islamic extremist group al-Shabab. But what made them decide to leave?

Following attacks in Paris and now Brussels, investigators continue to track down those responsible.

Four days after the arrest of a suspect of the Paris attack that killed 130 people, blasts have gone off at Brussels airport and a metro station.

Survivors of the Boko Haram massacre that took place around the town of Baga, Nigeria, describe the militants slaughtering some people "like insects".

Werner Groenewald, the South African aid worker killed in Afghanistan, tried to protect his children from the gunmen after he was shot in the leg.

A day after a deadly suicide bombing at a train station in Volgograd, Russia, a blast in the same city has left 10 people dead.

The death toll in Volgograd, Russia, has risen to 16 after a suicide bomber targeted a train station in the city ahead of the Olympic Games.

Security forces in Iraq have freed hostages at a city council office and killed one suicide bomber, says an official.

Chinese authorities investigating what could be Beijing’s first major suicide attack have been searching for two men from Muslim-dominated Xinjiang.

The "global war on terror" and its awful sequelae seem very far away to most South Africans.

At least 50 people have died after a vehicle laden with explosives was detonated by a suicide bomber near government buildings in central Mogadishu.

Five simultaneous suicide attacks targeted African Union bases in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, officials have said.

The police chief of northern Afghanistan had been among seven people killed in a suicide bombing at the Takhar governor’s office.