Islamabad: A teenage suicide bomber targeted security personnel in a crowded market in the restive Bajaur tribal region of northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 17 people and injuring 42 others, officials said. The security personnel had gathered at a shop at the bazar in Khar, the main town of Bajaur Agency, after conducting a patrol when the teenage attacker approached them and detonated his suicide vest, witnesses told the media....
11:18 AM, May 04, 2012
Kabul: Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned photographs of US soldiers posing with the bloodied remains of three suicide bombers as "disgusting" and said on Thursday that only a quicker exit of international forces can prevent such missteps. Karzai joined top American officials in denouncing that two-year-old photos, the latest in a string of embarrassing controversies that have jeopardised relations between the two countries in the midst of negotiations over the...
11:03 PM, Apr 19, 2012
The US embassy has gone into lock-down amid a wave of coordinated attacks across Afghanistan. ...
09:59 PM, Apr 15, 2012
The sources said that the government is closely watching the situation after the explosions rocked different areas in Kabul. ...
07:34 PM, Apr 15, 2012
At least six people, including two of Somalia's top sports officials, were killed when a female suicide bomber struck a ceremony at Mogadishu's national theatre. ...
10:00 AM, Apr 05, 2012
Mogadishu: At least six people, including two of Somalia's top sports officials, were killed when a female suicide bomber struck a ceremony at Mogadishu's national theatre in an attack Islamist rebels said was aimed at assassinating government ministers. Al Shabaab insurgents claimed responsibility for the blast on Wednesday that killed the heads of Somalia's soccer federation and Olympic committee in yet another stark reminder of the fragile security in the...
08:54 AM, Apr 05, 2012
Los Angeles: Actress Freida Pinto says she had a terrifying brush with a suicide bomber while filming a TV show in Afghanistan. Before finding fame with her role in multi-Oscar winning 2008 movie 'Slumdog Millionaire', the Indian beauty was a presenter on Zee TV's travel show 'Full Circle'. She headed to Afghanistan in 2006 for a report on the region's tourism hotspots - but was left shaken when she had...
01:57 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Baghdad: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near a funeral procession in southeastern Baghdad today, killing at least 32 people half of them policemen who were guarding the march in the latest brazen attack since the US troop withdrawal from Iraq. Police officials said the blast occurred at 11:00 am in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Zafaraniyah, where mourners had gathered for the funeral of a person killed the...
08:30 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Beirut: A suicide bomber killed 26 people and wounded 63 in Damascus, Syria's interior minister said, vowing an "iron fist" response to Friday's carnage in the heart of the capital after similar attacks two weeks ago. Qatar's prime minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, said Syria was not implementing a deal with the Arab League aimed at halting violence in the country and that League monitors could not stay there...
01:29 PM, Jan 07, 2012
Taloqan: A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people, including a member of parliament, and wounded 50 in Afghanistan's northern city of Taloqan on Sunday, police said, the latest in a series of attacks in a once-peaceful region. The attack occurred while prayers were being read at the funeral of an influential tribal leader. All victims were civilians. "People were gathering for a funeral when a suicide bomber detonated himself,"...
10:49 PM, Dec 25, 2011
Karachi: Four suspected terrorists and two policemen were killed after a gunfire and chase resulting in a suicide bomb blast in the up-market seafront of Karachi. The terrorists blew themselves up close to a popular restaurant, near Karachi's popular Seaview beach on Wednesday, after police chased their Suzuki van and there was an exchange of fire. "The police have succeeded in foiling what was an apparent terrorist attack these men...
03:17 AM, Nov 17, 2011
Karachi: Three suicide bombers blew themselves up when they were challenged by police on the seafront in this southern Pakistani city on Wednesday, killing a policeman and injuring another, officials said. The three terrorists were travelling in an explosives-laden van when police asked them to stop in Seaview area of Karachi at about 10 pm on Wednesday. The men were killed when they detonated the explosives in the van, Superintendent...
11:52 PM, Nov 16, 2011
Islamabad: A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a prayer ground in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing a political leader and his bodyguard and injuring seven others, police said. The bomber struck as former nazim (mayor) Hanif Jadoon was leaving the prayer ground after offering Eid-ul-Azha prayers. Jadoon and his bodyguard were killed instantly, police officials said. Jadoon's son was among the seven injured persons. The wounded were taken to...
11:16 AM, Nov 07, 2011
Kabul: At least seven civilians were killed and 15 others injured when a suicide bomber detonated explosives near a mosque in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, the interior ministry said. The bomber attacked soon after prayers for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha had finished, ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said. "We strongly condemn this. This is yet another act of violence against civilians, on this important day," he...
04:13 PM, Nov 06, 2011
Maiduguri: Suicide bombers attacked a military base, a car bomb exploded outside a barracks and explosives detonated on Friday around northeast Nigeria, a region under siege from a radical Muslim sect, officials said. While casualties weren't immediately clear, one blast struck outside a school where parents had arrived to pick up their children. There was no claim of responsibility but blame immediately fell to the sect known as Boko Haram,...
02:57 AM, Nov 05, 2011
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