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9 pupils fatally stabbed at China school. BEIJING -- A man wielding a knife killed nine children and injured a dozen others outside a middle school in central China on Friday, authorities said, in one of the worst attacks at a Chinese school in recent years. The incident took place shortly after 6 p.m., officials ...

Afghan media quoting a military spokesman reported that the suicide car bombing took place near the Afghan National Army third brigade in Loy Bagh locality in Nad Ali district at around 8:00am. The bodies and the injured were shifted to hospital. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing and ...

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): One civilian was killed and four others, including two army soldiers, wounded in a car-bombing in the Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province on Saturday, an official said. Maj. Abdul Qadir Bahadurzai, spokesman for the 215 Maiwand Military Corps, said the bombing took ...

By Shadi Khan Saif. KABUL, Afghanistan. A car bombing killed six people on Saturday in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, an official said. Omer Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor, told Anadolu Agency the attack occurred in Naad-e-Ali district. "A suicide attacker was shot dead before ...

Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar's chief of staff on Wednesday survived a car bombing in the eastern city of Benghazi, according to his self-styled Libyan National Army. General Abdelrazak al-Nadhuri “escaped unharmed from a terrorist assassination attempt after a car bomb exploded… as his ...

Two deadly car bombings in Douma on Monday have been attributed to the Russian-backed Syrian regime, who local sources claim to be purposefully delaying the international chemical weapons investigation.

A man died in Calabria in southern Italy on Monday after his car blew up in a suspected car bomb incident. The victim, named in Italian media as 42-year-old Matteo Vinci, had run in the most recent town council elections in Limbadi, a town of around 3,700 people. Vinci's 73-year-old father was also in the ...

(ANSA) - Vibo Valeantia, April 9 - A 42-year-old man, Matteo Vinci, died at Limbadi near Vibo Valentia in Calabria as the car he was driving blew up because of a suspected bomb on Monday. Carabinieri said they thought a bomb may have been placed in the car boot. His father Vincenzo was seriously ...

Three people are dead after a pair of suicide car bombings in Somalia's capital, police said Friday. The first explosion occurred at an army checkpoint on the airport road in Mogadishu, injuring one soldier, Capt. Mohamed Hussein said. The bomber apparently was heading to Mogadishu's international ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross says one of its staff members is dead after a car bombing in Somalia's capital. A statement says Abdulhafid Yusuf Ibrahim, a Somali national, died Wednesday night of his injuries after the attack in Mogadishu. Somali police said ...

Qatar has strongly condemned and denounced the car bombing that took place in the Rushdi area of the Egyptian city of Alexandria, killing two people and wounding several others. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated Qatar's firm stance rejecting violence and terrorism, regardless of ...

Egyptian police kill six suspects after car bombing targets security chief. The six suspects were militants from the Hasam Movement which aims to overthrow the government. The attack happened two days before an election which President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is expected to win. A destroyed vehicle at the ...

Mogadishu: Three explosions over four days in or near the Somalian capital have left a trail of carnage, killing nearly 20 people and injuring dozens of others, as Islamic militants unleashed a wave of attacks on the country. On Sunday, a car bomb exploded at a security checkpoint near the Interior Ministry ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Three explosions over four days in or near the Somalian capital have left a trail of carnage, killing nearly 20 people and injuring dozens of others, as Islamist militants unleashed a wave of attacks on the country. On Sunday, a car bomb exploded at a security checkpoint near the ...

At least 13 people were injured in a car-bomb blast on Sunday in the northern Syrian city of Jarabulus, according to local sources. A number of women and children were among those injured in the attack, the sources said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to media. On March 7, six ...

At least seven people were killed in a car-bomb blast in Syria's northwestern Idlib city on Saturday, according to a local civil defense official. The bombing struck near a hospital in central Idlib, Mustafa Haj Yousuf, director of the White Helmets civil defense agency in Idlib said. He said seven people were ...

An explosion rocked Egypt's second-largest city of Alexandria Saturday, killing a policeman and wounding four others, according to the interior ministry. A car bombing targeted a security convoy near the luxury Royal Tulip Hotel along the coast in Alexandria's Roshdi district, sending plumes of black smoke ...

A car bomb in the southern Afghan province of Helmand killed at least 15 people and wounded another 51 who had gathered on Friday for a wrestling match, officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, which went off outside the match venue in the provincial capital Lashkar ...

In February twin car bombings left 38 people dead in Mogadishu. In October last year, Somalia suffered its deadliest-ever terrorist attack in which more than 500 people were killed in a truck bombing in a busy part of the city. In the wake of that attack, Somalia's government declared a fresh offensive against ...

Car bomb explosion near stadium hosting wrestling match kills at least 14 and wounds 40, health official says. 23 Mar 2018. A man carries a wounded boy in a hospital, after a car bombing outside a sports stadium in Lashkar Gah, capital city of southern Helmand province, Afghanistan [Abdul Khaliq/AP] [The Associated ...

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on Dignity Operation fighters positioned at checkpoint 60 south of Ajdabiya town, according to a statement on its propaganda outlet Amaq. The extremist group identified the suicide attacker as "Abdul-Hamid al-Muhajir. On its Facebook page, Ajdabiya ...

Three people were injured Friday by a car-bomb attack on a checkpoint near Libya's eastern city of Ajdabiya, a stronghold for forces loyal to military commander Khalifa Haftar, according to a local security source. The source, who spoke to Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity, said the attack had ...

What's gone totally unremembered, however, is that Thursday was the 33rd anniversary of a notoriously grisly assault carried out by Saudi Arabia, the U.K. and the U.S. On March 8, 1985, a car bombing in Beirut aimed at assassinating the Shia cleric Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah missed its target but ...

Two Colombian police officers were killed Saturday when criminals bombed their car, then hurled grenades and strafed it with gunfire, local authorities said. The officers were near the town of Caldono, in southwestern Colombia, when their vehicle was “attacked with an explosive,” the police said in a ...

Afghan authorities say a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car Friday near a NATO convoy in the capital, Kabul, killing a six-year old girl and wounding 14 other people. Police spokesman Baser Mujahid told VOA the attack happened near a foreign military base on a main road linking Kabul ...

Two car-bomb attacks have killed at least 38 people in the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials say. The first took place outside the presidential palace late on Friday. The second hit a nearby hotel. Dozens of people were wounded. The Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which has been trying to oust Somalia's government, ...

Two car bomb explosions killed at least 14 people and wounded 43 others including civilians on Saturday in Yemen's southern city of Aden, security officials and witnesses said, in an attack later claimed by the extremist Islamic State group. The explosions targeted the site of an anti-terrorism military camp ...

LASHKARGHA (Pajhwok): Three security personnel were killed and as many wounded in two separate car bombings in southern Helmand province, an official said on Saturday. Omar Zwak, the governor's spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan a car bomb attack hit the National Directorate of Security (NDS ...

Twin car bombings and subsequent gunfire has left at least 38 people dead and 20 others wounded in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, medical workers said. A loud explosion reportedly took place on Friday, followed by a second blast and sustained gunfire which broke out near the president's residence.