roadside bombings

Both the al-Qaida militants and Islamic State group often launch suicide and roadside bombings against Yemeni security forces based in several provinces of the country. The impoverished Arab country has been locked into a civil war since the Iranian-backed Shiite Houthi rebels overran much of the ...

Officials inspect the scene of a roadside bombing in Ruesoh, a district in southern Thailand's Narathiwat province, March 4, 2018. Matahari Ismail/BenarNews. A military program that encourages insurgents in Thailand's Deep South to surrender has been a source of friction lately in peace talks between the ...

Veteran Bobby Henline, aka the well-done comedian, is a survivor of a roadside bombing after his fourth tour in Iraq. Now, he's coming to the Basin to share his experience from the battlefield to the comedy stage. An IED exploded in his Humvee back in 2007 that killed four other soldiers. Henline suffered ...

However, in majority of such attacks the ordinary civilians are targeted besides the roadside bombings claims the lives of the militants and the security personnel. A total of 10,453 civilian casualties – 3,438 people killed and 7,015 injured – were documented in the 2017 Annual Report released last month ...

Members of the Hamas security forces inspect the crater left at the site of an explosion that targeted the convoy of the Palestinian Prime Minister during his visit to the Gaza strip, near the Erez crossing, in Beit Hanun, the northern access point into the coastal Palestinian territory, on March 13, 2018.

Military officials investigate the site of a roadside bombing in Ja nae, a district of southern Thailand's Narathiwat province, Feb. 18, 2018. Matahari Ismail/BenarNews. Thai officials have been in contact with armed separatists in Thailand's Deep South in the past, but this approach only leads to more violence ...

AMMAN, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Jordan on Wednesday condemned the roadside bombing targeting the convoy of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in northern Gaza Strip, state-run Petra news agency reported. Jordan's Minister of State for Media Affairs Mohammad Momani said such attempts ...

A convoy of vehicles reportedly transporting foreign forces was targeted on Sunday morning in Daman district in Kandahar province. Early reports stated the troops targeted were from the unit responsible for the security of the Kandahar airport. Officials said at least two civilians were wounded in the incident. However no ...

Five soldiers, including an Army junior officer, were wounded in a roadside bombing in Datu Unsay town of Maguindanao around 7:30 a.m. on Saturday. Chief Supt. Graciano Mijares, director of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) regional police, said armed groups detonated an ...

A Palestinian member of the Hamas security forces patrols during an operation Thursday to arrest suspects wanted for a roadside bombing that targeted the visiting Palestinian premier's convoy in Gaza last week. AddThis Sharing Buttons. Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Google+ Share to ...

The Egyptian interior ministry's top security official in Alexandria survived an assassination attempt on Saturday that left two policemen dead and five others injured in a roadside bombing. Major General Mustafa Al Nimr was unharmed when the blast struck his convoy near his headquarters in the city centre ...

A Palestinian member of the Hamas security forces patrols during an operation to arrest suspects wanted for a roadside bombing that targeted the visiting Palestinian premier's convoy in Gaza last week, in the town of Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra) Khalil ...

Qari Bakhtiar was in-charge of organizing roadside bombings and targeting security personnel in the northern Baghlan province, the official said, adding his arrest could prove a major setback to the militant group. Meantime, another army spokesman in the northern region, Mohammad Hanif Rezai said that ...

ASSADABAD, Afghanistan, March 12 (Xinhua) -- At least two local police personnel sustained injuries as anti-government militants in a new tactic to target government forces, organized a donkey bomb in Sarkano district of the eastern Kunar province on Monday, provincial police chief Haqnawaz Haqyar ...

Authorities say six police officers were killed and 47 injured in a rebel bombing at a police station in Barranquilla in January. Nearly a half-dozen other officers were killed in a roadside bombing near Colombia's border with Venezuela in February. Copyright © 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

JABALIA, Palestinian Territory - A roadside bomb on Tuesday struck the convoy of the Palestinian prime minister during a rare visit to the Gaza Strip, causing no serious injuries but throwing an already troubled reconciliation process between rival factions into deeper turmoil. Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah ...