Two soldiers were killed on Friday in the first suicide bombing in Pakistani Kashmir while several were hurt in a blast near the Afghan border.
The son of one of Pakistan’s most prominent anti-Taliban Muslim clerics fears that his father’s murder could spark more sectarian violence.
Somalia’s internal security minister was among 10 people killed on Thursday in a suicide bombing at a hotel in Beledweyne, witnesses said.
A suicide car bomber targeted Somalia’s security minister in his hotel in the central town of Baladwayne on Thursday, witnesses said.
A prominent anti-Taliban Pakistani Muslim cleric was killed on Friday in a suicide bomb attack in the city of Lahore, police said.
A car bomb ripped through a crowded market in southern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 32 people, wounding 70, officials said.
The death toll from twin car bomb blasts in a crowded Baghdad market rose to 51 on Thursday, police said, and the country’s main Sunni political party
Back-to-back suicide bombings killed 60 people on Friday outside the most important Shi’ite shrine in Baghdad.
A spate of car bombings in Baghdad killed at least 34 people and wounded nearly 140 on Monday, security officials said, updating an earlier toll.
A suicide bomber on Wednesday struck a convoy carrying South Korean officials sent to Yemen to probe an earlier bombing that killed four tourists.
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/ 24 February 2009
Fierce clashes killed at least 14 people on Tuesday in Mogadishu, marring the newly elected president’s first days in the Somali capital.
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/ 20 February 2009
A suicide bomber ran into a crowd of mourners at the funeral of a slain Shi’ite Muslim leader in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 30 people.
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/ 13 February 2009
A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a crowd of Shi’ite pilgrims on Friday, killing 32 people and wounding 84 others south of Baghdad.
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/ 15 November 2008
Trend towards increased stability in Iraq is
rocked by women attackers in Diyala province. Martin Chulov in Baghdad reports.
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/ 1 November 2008
The family of two militants awaiting execution for the Bali bombings that killed 202 people says paradise awaits them after the firing squads.
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/ 10 October 2008
A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people in an attack on a tribal council meeting in Pakistan’s north-west Orakzai region on Friday.
A suicide car bomber rammed an anti-terrorist squad building at Islamabad’s police headquarters on Thursday.
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/ 23 September 2008
BA said on Tuesday it had cancelled flights to Pakistan indefinitely after a suicide truck bomb blast at a hotel in Islamabad at the weekend.
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/ 10 September 2008
Abit (21) is sitting in the Kabul headquarters of the National Security Directorate and talking about how he became a suicide bomber.
Two suicide bombers killed at least 57 people outside Pakistan’s main military arms factory on Thursday.
European intelligence chiefs have launched a major investigation into the threat posed by female Islamic militants within the European Union.
Three female suicide bombers killed at least 28 people in Baghdad on Monday while in the city of Kirkuk another bomber killed at least 22 people.
At least 24 people were killed on Sunday in a suicide attack at a crowded bazaar in southern Afghanistan, police said, raising an earlier toll.
A suicide car bomber rammed two diplomatic vehicles entering the Indian Embassy in Kabul on Monday, killing 41 people and wounding 141.
At least 15 people were killed and 35 wounded when a female suicide bomber blew herself up among police officers north of Baghdad on Sunday.
A suicide attack on a Nato convoy in southern Afghanistan on Friday killed 10 civilians and wounded some Nato soldiers.
Egyptian expert on radical Islamists, Dia Rashwan, says recent al-Qaeda propaganda footage from Iraq is old and cannot mask the crisis it is facing.
Pakistani police foiled planned suicide attacks on the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, arresting six suspects and seizing three vehicles packed with explosives, officials said on Friday.