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
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
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
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
Peshawar: A female suicide bomber detonated her explosives near police guarding the scene of an explosion earlier Thursday in this northwestern Pakistani city, a rare double-pronged attack that killed four officers and a boy. Police said a second female suicide bomber is also believed to have been killed in the second explosion before she could detonate her vest. At least 30 people were wounded in both attacks. The blasts ended...
11:05 AM, Aug 11, 2011
Baghdad: Suicide bombers detonated two explosives-laden vehicles early on Tuesday near a government compound south of Baghdad, killing at least 22 people and wounding dozens, Iraqi officials said. The attacks come as Iraq's top political factions started to discuss in earnest whether to ask some of the U.S. troops to stay beyond the Dec. 31 withdrawal deadline because of the security situation. While violence is well below what it was...
12:58 PM, Jun 21, 2011
Beijing: The serial bomb blasts that rocked Fuzhou city in southern Jiangxi province will perhaps go down as a rare case of suicide bombing in main land China. The death toll from Wednesday's explosion in east China's Jiangxi Province has gone up to three with one of the injured person succumbing to his wounds. The explosions rocked three different locations targeting the government in Fuzhou which included the office of...
02:28 PM, May 27, 2011
Islamabad: Islamabad: Within a fortnight of Osama bin Laden's elimination, Pakistani Taliban on Friday carried out its first major strike to avenge his death, as two suicide bombers struck a paramilitary facility in the northwestern town of Shabqadar, killing 73 people and wounding over 100. Over 115 people were also injured when the bombers struck a large group of Frontier Constabulary personnel about to go on leave after completing a...
09:21 AM, May 13, 2011
The suicide bomber rammed his car in a building with 600 kg of explosives. ...
10:37 PM, Mar 08, 2010
It comes as a retaliation against government operation in Bajaur ...
06:22 PM, Jan 30, 2010
The video calls on terrorists to avenge the death of Baitullah Mehsud. ...
09:30 AM, Jan 10, 2010
It was a a bloody start to the new year in Peshawar. ...
07:57 PM, Jan 01, 2010
The bombing took place near Heetal Hotel in Kabul. ...
12:32 PM, Dec 15, 2009
The European Union and the African Union condemned the attack. ...
08:38 PM, Dec 03, 2009
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