In Afghanistan, using suicide bombers is a common tactic followed by the Taliban. Deadly attacks are pulled off by anonymous fidayeens. CNN met one such suicide bomber who revealed what he was thinking and what he continued to believe. ...
11:07 AM, Sep 29, 2012
Kabul: A suicide bomber rammed a small sedan heavily laden with explosives into a mini-bus believed to be carrying foreign aviation workers to the airport in the Afghan capital early on Tuesday, killing at least nine people. Kabul police chief Gen Mohammad Ayub Salangi said the large explosion took place on an avenue northwest of the city centre near Kabul International Airport. The blast, which went off in front a...
10:08 AM, Sep 18, 2012
Bulgaria has released CCTV footage of a man suspected of carrying out a deadly suicide bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists at Burgas airport on Wednesday. ...
10:39 AM, Jul 20, 2012
Burgas: A suicide bomber carried out an attack that killed seven people in a bus transporting Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, the interior minister said on Thursday, and Israel said Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants were to blame. Iran denied it was behind Wednesday's attack at Burgas airport, a popular gateway for tourists visiting the Black Sea coast. Video surveillance footage showed the bomber was similar in appearance to tourists arriving at the...
10:21 AM, Jul 20, 2012
Kabul: A suicide bomber blew himself up among guests at a wedding hall Saturday in northern Afghanistan, killing 23 people including a prominent ex-Uzbek warlord turned lawmaker who was the father of the bride. The attack was the latest to target top figures from the country's minority groups and dealt a blow to efforts to unify ethnic factions amid growing concerns that the country could descend into civil war after...
01:15 AM, Jul 15, 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
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
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: A team of six suicide bombers launched a coordinated assault on a provincial governor's compound in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 19 people in the latest high-profile attack to target prominent Afghan government officials, authorities said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the Parwan provincial capital of Charikar, some 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Kabul. Afghan police said the assault began with a car bomb outside...
04:41 PM, Aug 14, 2011
Islamabad: A suicide bomber on Monday blew himself up near the venue of a political rally at Battagram in northwest Pakistan, killing at least six persons and injuring 19 others. The bomber struck as workers of the PML-Q party, which is part of the ruling coalition at the centre, were preparing for a rally to be addressed by senior party leader and former federal minister Amir Muqam. Witnesses said the...
12:43 PM, Jul 11, 2011
Islamabad: A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a private bank in the heart of the Pakistani capital on Monday, killing a security guard and injuring several others, police said. The bomber detonated his explosive vest when he was stopped by a security guard as he tried to enter the bank at the market in Sector I-8, police officials said. Deputy Inspector General of Police Bin Yamin confirmed that the...
04:09 PM, Jun 13, 2011
Baghdad: A suicide bomber attacked a mosque filled with Iraqi politicians and policemen on Friday and another blew himself up inside the hospital where the wounded were taken, killing a total of 21 people in Saddam Hussein's hometown. The twin attacks as well as the fact that the bombers were able to infiltrate areas that were supposed to be secure, left people in Tikrit feeling under siege. It was the...
02:06 AM, Jun 04, 2011
Islamabad: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Monday declared former President Pervez Musharraf a "proclaimed offender" or fugitive for failing to cooperate with investigators probing the 2007 assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto. Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed of the Rawalpindi-based court declared Musharraf, currently living in self-exile outside Pakistan, a fugitive on the request of the Federal Investigation Agency. Prosecutors told the judge during proceedings held in Adiala Jail for security...
03:32 PM, May 30, 2011
Islamabad: The Pakistani Taliban shot dead the head of a pro-government tribal militia, his son and a passer-by in the country's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, police said. The attackers, who were riding a motorcycle, fled after the incident in Swabi district, officials said. Two armed militants fired at Etbar Khan, the head of an anti-Taliban militia of Mohmand tribal region, when he was waiting for some persons along a road. Khan...
10:37 PM, May 15, 2011
Kabul: The orders from their religious teacher were clear, "Go to Afghanistan, strap on a suicide vest and kill foreign forces". With that, 9-year-old Ghulam Farooq left his home in Pakistan with three other would-be boy bombers and headed into eastern Afghanistan. They were told there would be two members of the Taliban waiting for them at the Torkham border crossing in Nangarhar province. Instead, members of the Afghan intelligence...
07:40 PM, May 15, 2011
Kabul: Taliban-led insurgents killed at least 11 people across Afghanistan in a renewed springtime offensive on Sunday despite a huge security clampdown, hours after the United Nations pleaded for all sides to avoid civilian casualties. The hardline Islamists have warned civilians to stay away from public gatherings, military bases and convoys, as well as government offices, because those sites would be the target of a wave of attacks beginning on...
08:51 PM, May 01, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani Taliban have established an all-women wing of suicide bombers to carry out terror missions across the country, dramatically revealed a 12-year-old girl who managed to escape from the clutches of the rebels from near the Afghanistan border. Meena Gul's brother, a Taliban commander, told her, "You will go to heaven before any of us, if you blow up yourself the way I tell you." 'The Express Tribune' reported...
01:03 PM, Dec 29, 2010
Peshawar: A suicide bomber targeted a hospital run by the Shia community in Hangu district of Pakistan's restive northwest on Friday, killing at least 11 people and injuring 10 others, the second such attack against the minority group within a week. The bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the hospital at Pass-Killay in Hangu region of Khyber Pakhtunkwa province, official sources said. They said 11 people were killed and 10...
06:27 PM, Dec 10, 2010
Karachi: Two suicide bombers on Thursday struck venerated Sufi shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi in Pakistani port city Karachi, killing at least 10 people and wounding 60 others in the latest in a slew of attacks on sacred places. The blasts occurred on Thursday evening in quick succession at the entrance of the packed shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi, considered to be patron saint of Karachi and is revered by...
08:49 PM, Oct 07, 2010
