There have been no claims of responsibility for the suicide bombing, although authorities believe jihadi group Boko Haram is responsible
Two suicide bombings killed at least 40 people in the central Nigerian city of Jos, witnesses said.
A suicide bomber attacked a church in the restive northeastern Nigerian city of Potiskum, in Yobe state, killing at least five worshippers.
Action is needed to halt the targeting of children in conflict zones everywhere, writes Anthony Lake.
Twenty three people were killed in two suicide bombing attacks in Nigeria over the weekend, while the country prepares for elections in February.
Werner Groenewald dedicated 12 years of his life in Kabul, Afghanistan before he and his two children were killed by Taliban suicide bombers.
Four gunmen opened fire on guests in a luxury Kabul hotel restaurant in the latest violent attack in Afghanistan’s capital city.
The government has spoken out against two suicide bombings in the Russian town of Volgograd, in which over 30 people died and many were injured.
President Vladimir Putin has ordered tighter security from law enforcement agencies after a second bomb exploded in the country in just three days.
A Taliban suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-packed vehicle next to a Nato military convoy in Kabul, say officials.
A suicide bomber on a bicycle has killed nine people outside the defence ministry in Kabul during a visit by new US defence secretary Chuck Hagel.
Two suicide bombers walked into a restaurant in central Mogadishu and killed at least 15 people on Thursday, police said.
A suicide bomber detonated explosives near the heavily barricaded Nato headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, Nato and local officials said.
A suicide bomber killed seven officers as they arrived at a colleague’s funeral in Russia’s North Caucasus, soon after gunmen opened fire in a mosque.
Damascus has been hit by a suicide bomb, killing 25 and wounding dozens, with state media blaming ‘terrorists’ for the second such attack.
Suicide bombers hit two security service bases in Damascus on Friday killing 30 people and wounding 55 others, state television reported.
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/ 5 November 2011
Several explosions ripped through Nigeria’s troubled northeastern city of Maiduguri, including a suicide bomb attack on military offices.
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/ 31 October 2011
The last time Nairobi was bombed, in December, the would-be attacker got edgy and dropped his grenade. Three people, including the bomber, died.
A slew of bombings targeted Iraqi police in Baghdad, including blasts by two suicide bombers, killing 25 people and wounding dozens more.
The suicide bomber, his faced cloaked in black, solemnly approaches a line of comrades, hugging each one in turn. Wailing jihadi chants fill the air.
A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of police recruits in the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Tuesday, killing about 50 people.
Egypt was on high alert on Monday ahead of the Coptic Christmas holiday following a New Year’s Day church bombing that killed 21 people.
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/ 15 December 2010
Thirty people were killed and 55 injured Wednesday in a suicide bombing at a mosque in Iran’s south-eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.
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/ 13 December 2010
British police were searching an address in Southern England on Monday in connection with weekend bombings in Sweden.
A suicide bomber has blown himself up at a crowded Iraqi army recruitment centre in Baghdad on Tuesday killing 43 people.
A suicide bomber drove a motorbike into a crowd of Pakistanis in a busy market outside a local goverment office on Friday, killing at least 47 people.
Militants will not be allowed to "sow fear" in Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday after blasts killed 51 people this week.
Two blasts, one set off by a suicide bomber, rocked Kizlyar in Russia’s Dagestan region on Wednesday, killing at least nine people.
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/ 25 January 2010
At least 36 people were killed and 71 wounded in three apparently coordinated minibus-borne bombings that targeted hotels in Baghdad on Monday.
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/ 17 December 2009
A teenage suicide bomber blew himself up at a gathering a northwestern Pakistani town on Thursday, but guests escaped unhurt, police said.
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/ 15 December 2009
A suicide bomber struck an upmarket district of Kabul on Tuesday near a hotel and guest house frequented by foreigners, killing eight people
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/ 28 October 2009
The latest bomb attacks in Baghdad have increased pressure on Nuri al-Maliki, who is already in the cross-hairs of former Shi’ite allies.