Kabul: The Afghan Taliban said on Sunday that coordinated attacks in several provinces in Afghanistan, including multiple assaults on Western embassies and NATO headquarters in Kabul, were the start of an insurgent spring offensive. "These attacks are the beginning of the spring offensive and we had planned them for months," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters. In a text message to the reporters, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed said, "Today, afternoon,...
07:40 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Islamabad: At least 73 people, mostly militants, were killed on Friday in separate incidents of violence, including a suicide attack outside a mosque and a fierce clash between security forces and terrorists, in the restive tribal belt of northwest Pakistan. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in the volatile Khyber tribal region this afternoon, killing 23 militants of the banned Lashkar-e-Islam group and injuring over 20 others,...
07:15 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Washington: A 29-year-old Moroccan man who believed he was working with al Qaeda was arrested on Friday near the US Capitol as he was planning to detonate what he thought was a suicide vest that undercover operatives gave him, officials said. Amine El Khalifi of Alexandria, Va, was taken into custody with a gun that didn't work and inert explosives, according to a counterterrorism official. He arrived near the Capitol...
01:45 PM, Feb 18, 2012
Damascus: At least 44 people died and dozens more were wounded when two car bombers blew themselves up outside the heavily guarded compounds of Syria's intelligence agencies in the capital Damascus, authorities have said. State-run TV said the al-Qaida terrorist network was possibly to blame for Friday's twin attacks " the first suicide car bombings in the nine-month uprising against authoritarian President Bashar Assad. The opposition, however, immediately questioned the...
12:55 PM, Dec 24, 2011
Nairobi: A suicide bomber struck the Somali capital on Tuesday, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks in Mogadishu, and dozens of Islamist rebels and Somali government troops have been killed in fighting in the south. The car bomb exploded 50 metres from the recently reopened Turkish embassy, near to the Kilometre 4 (K4) junction, a busy intersection in Mogadishu's administrative district. A health official said at least three...
01:27 AM, Dec 07, 2011
Kabul: A suicide bomber attacked a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in central Kabul on Tuesday where a crowd of hundreds had gathered for the festival of Ashura, killing up to 20 people in what appeared to be an unprecedented sectarian attack. Mohammad Zahir, head of Kabul's Criminal Investigation Department, said he had counted up to 20 bodies at a Kabul hospital, and expected the toll to rise. Afghanistan has a history...
01:34 PM, Dec 06, 2011
Kabul: Three Afghan civilians were killed in a suicide attack in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar early on Monday, authorities in Kandahar said. The blast was close to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) building in Kandahar, the UN said. "We are aware of an explosion which took place earlier this morning in the vicinity of the UNHCR guest house," United Nations spokesman Dan...
10:18 AM, Oct 31, 2011
Kabul: A suicide bomber posing as a Taliban peace envoy assassinated a former Afghan president who for the past year headed a government council trying to negotiate a political settlement with the insurgents. Tuesday's attack, carried out in former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani's Kabul home by a militant who detonated explosives hidden in his turban, dealt a harsh blow to efforts at ending a decade of war. President Hamid Karzai...
01:09 AM, Sep 21, 2011
Kabul: Former Afghanistan President Burhanuddin Rabbani was killed in a suicide attack on Tuesday evening in his home in Kabul. The blast took place in Kabul's diplomatic zone. Reports said that Rabbani was in a meeting with two Taliban leaders when the attack happened. Rabbani was the head of the country's high peace council, which was set up by the Afghan government to work toward a political solution. However, it...
07:56 PM, Sep 20, 2011
Islamabad: A suicide car bomber on Wednesday struck Shia worshipers in Pakistan's southwestern restive Quetta city killing at least 11 people and wounding 22 others turning Eid-ul Fitr festivities into mourning. The bomber drove a car laden with about 40 kg of explosives intending to hit a Shia mosque at prayers time, but finding the place heavily guarded, detonated the bomb in a nearby parking lot. At the time of...
12:02 PM, Aug 31, 2011
Abuja: Nigeria launched an investigation into the massive suicide attack at the high security UN headquarters here, as the number of dead in the bombing went up to 19 on Saturday. A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into the building of the UN Headquarters in the Nigerian capital on Friday, destroying a huge portion of the five-storey building that houses 400 UN employees. Officials on Saturday said that 19...
06:21 PM, Aug 27, 2011
Islamabad: At least 10 policemen were killed as a suicide bomber blew himself up when security forces mounted an operation to rescue hostages taken by a group of militants who stormed a police station in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, officials said. Eight to 10 militants, some of them wearing burqas, took control of the police station in Kulachi town of Dera Ismail Khan district after firing indiscriminately and lobbing grenades...
10:35 PM, Jun 25, 2011
Islamabad: A journalist who was seriously injured in a suicide attack in northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar died in hospital on Friday, officials said. Shafiullah Khan, a 28-year-old reporter with The News Daily, suffered severe burns during the suicide blast at Khyber Super Market in Peshawar on June 11. Khan, who was being treated at a military hospital in Wah, was declared dead by doctors on Friday morning. Khan failed...
04:42 PM, Jun 17, 2011
Islamabad: At least 42 people were killed and over a hundred injured on Sunday when three powerful blasts ripped through a crowded shrine in Pakistan's Punjab province. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has strongly condemned the attack. Hundreds of Sufi Muslims from different parts of the country had gathered at the shrine, called Sakhi Sarvar, near the Deraghazi Khan city for a three-day festival. The first blast, which has been...
08:56 AM, Apr 04, 2011
Peshawar: At least 34 people were killed and more than 50 others injured when a suicide bomber targeted members of an anti-Taliban militia attending a funeral in Pakistan's restive northwest on Wednesday. The bomber targeted the funeral prayers of the wife of Hakeem Khan, a leader of the "peace committee" or anti-Taliban militia of Adezai, a tribal area near Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The attacker, a youth who...
02:42 PM, Mar 09, 2011
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