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MOGADISHU, April 28 (Xinhua) -- At least six people, including three senior Somali military officers, were killed in a suicide bombing in the central town of Galkayo on Saturday. Security officials said the blast occurred after a man with suicide vest detonated explosives strapped in his waist as he ...

A suicide bomber has blown himself up in a military camp in the Somali town of Galkayo, killing four officers, officials say, an attack claimed by the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group. The dead included a military commander and two colonels, the town's Mayor, Hirsi Yusuf Barre, told Reuters on Saturday.

At least one civilian was killed and four soldiers were wounded in a car bomb in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province on Saturday, security officials said. According to local security officials the explosion took place near the Afghan National Army's third brigade in Loye Bagh village of the district, when a ...

It's the phone call that so many Afghan Canadians dread. There's another suicide bombing back in Kabul, and you wait, and you hope that the call doesn't come, but Mohammad Yasir Mehrzad's telephone rang shortly after last Sunday's suicide bombing at a voter registration office in the Dasht-e-Barchi ...

On Sunday, some 60 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a voter registration center in Kabul in an attack claimed by Islamic State. There have been a number of other attacks outside the capital. Estimates of Taliban territorial control vary but the Pentagon estimates that 56 percent of the country is ...

The Taliban claimed an earlier attack on Tuesday, in eastern Ghazni province, that killed four policemen. Also on Tuesday, Kabul authorities raised the death toll from Sunday's Islamic State suicide bombing in the Afghan capital to 60 dead, after three peole died of their wounds in hospital. ___. 10 a.m..

At least five Pakistani policemen were killed in a suicide bombing on the airport road in Quetta city on Tuesday night, Geo News reported. In addition, seven other policemen were wounded. The incident happened after a suicide bomber targeted a police truck, Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA): At least four people including two suicide bombers were killed in an attack at a mosque on Sunday in northeastern Nigeria, police said. Two female suicide bombers sneaked into a mosque in Bama town of Borno State early morning and detonated explosives, killing themselves ...

Barkatullah is 13. He lost his right arm and leg in a mine explosion on May 2017. But that does not deter him from dreaming of a brighter future. "The policemen were among the people who rescued me and saved my life," he says on a chilly evening in the children's playground at the Emergency War and ...

By Viola Fahmi. CAIRO. At least eight soldiers were killed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Saturday amid an ongoing security operation in the restive region, according to the Egyptian military. A group of 14 militants armed with explosive vests, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) attacked a ...

Six Iraqi soldiers were injured Sunday in a suicide bombing in the western Anbar province, according to a military officer. A bomber detonated his explosive vest near a group of soldiers who were checking the site of another bombing in the city of Hit, 70 kilometers west of Ramadi, Col. Walid al-Delimi told ...

Coptic Christians in Egypt mark first anniversary of twin suicide bombings. by Abigail Frymann ... COPTS in Egypt are approaching Orthodox Easter tomorrow night with excitement and sorrow, as they prepare to mark the first anniversary of the twin suicide bombings that killed 48. Christians and Muslims ...

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, suicide bombing attacks by Boko Haram in 2017 were five times that of the previous year. ... Since the civilian watch group was formed in 2013, 772 members have died in combat with Boko Haram or in suicide bombings.

MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. Russian military have cut short attempted suicide bombings on busses carrying refugees in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Thursday at a meeting with UN Secretary General's special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura. Read also ...

A suicide bomber blew himself up near a shrine in Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens, as the Afghan capital celebrated the Nawruz holiday marking the start of the Persian new year. The explosion underlined the threat to the city from militant attacks, despite government ...

The Islamic State in Khorasan, the group's local affiliate, has repeatedly targeted Shiites in the Afghan capital over the past year, most recently on March 9, when 10 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque complex. That blast set off protests by the Hazara minority, a long-oppressed ...

The Taraba State Police Command on Friday confirmed that five persons lost their lives following the outbreak of fresh crisis on the Mambila Plateau in Sardauna Local Government Area of the state. Public Relations Officer of the command, ASP David Misal, who confirmed the incident, said that the incident ...

A six-year-old girl was killed and 14 people were wounded in a suspected suicide car bombing in eastern Kabul on March 2, Radio Free Europe reported. A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said the attack targeted a convoy of foreign forces in the Qabel Bai area in Kabul's PD9, which is home to a military ...

... 2017 Kampung Melayu twin suicide bombings in East Jakarta, allegedly masterminded by terrorist convict Aman Abdurrahman. Imprisoned radical cleric Aman, who is also a supporter of the Islamic State (IS), is also facing another trial on the 2016 suicide bombing on Jl. MH Thamrin in Central Jakarta.

On Friday, February 16, 2018, 2 persons were killed and 28 others injured in a multiple suicide bombing at a market in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno state. A witness, Idrissa Bana, said the three suicide bombers simultaneously detonated the Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) on their ...

Earlier in the day, two policemen were martyred when Deputy Superintendent of Police Hameedullah Dasti's car came under heavy firing by unknown assailants on Sumungli Road in the provincial capital. PHOTO: EXPRESS. QUETTA: Four troops of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) were martyred and ...

Demystifying al-Qaida in Nigeria: Boko Haram's Founding, Launch of Jihad and Suicide Bombings ..... also released with Kambar in 2007, was arrested again in Nigeria in 2011 in the days before the suicide bombing of the UN building in Nigeria's capital of Abuja in August 2011, which killed 23 people.

"The three suicide bombers were killed and 19 other persons died," Commissioner Damian Chukwu said. An official from the Civillian Joint Task force said there were 19 people dead and over 70 people injured in the blast. Suicide bombings have continued despite repeated assertions by the government ...

A suicide bombing in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley killed 11 soldiers and wounded 13 on Saturday in what authorities said was the first attack in over three years in the region once ruled by militants. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. The bomber detonated his explosives ...

LAGOS, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Six people were killed and 39 others injured in a suicide attack Wednesday night in northeastern Nigeria. A female suicide bomber infiltrated the Dalori Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in the city of Maiduguri and detonated an explosive device, killing herself and five ...

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KABUL, Afghanistan - KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan officials say toll from suicide bombing in Kabul rises to 31 dead, 54 wounded. Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Content Continues Below ...

The Boko Haram suicide bombers, according to the Air Force, in a statement by its spokesman, Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya, tried to gain access into the University but were quickly detected by the NAF Special Forces. The vest on one of the suicide bombers was said to have been detonated ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Islamic State group in statement on website claims responsibility for suicide bombing attack in Afghan capital. advertisement. Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Facebook · Twitter ...

Aden has recently witnessed suicide bombings and blasts that target security officials, and which are usually claimed by IS or al-Qaeda, who have exploited the conflict for their own aims. The southern city has been the temporary seat of Hadi's government since 2014 when Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, ...

Three members of a pro-government militia were injured in a suicide bombing in Iraq's oil-rich Kirkuk province on Sunday, according to a local police officer. A bomber blew himself up near a headquarters of the Shia Hashd al-Shaabi militia in central Kirkuk, Capt. Hamed al-Obaidi told Anadolu Agency.

Sorry, it appears as though your operating system and/or web browser does not support modern standards. Please consider updating your web browser. At least 23 people, mostly soldiers, were killed and more than a dozen wounded in a series of attacks and suicide bombings in Afghanistan on Saturday, ...

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DG Civil Defence Aslam Tareen has confirmed that it was a suicide bombing. “Body parts of the suspected bomber have been collected for investigation,” an official told SAMAA. Quetta has been wracked by violence in recent months. On April 2, 10 people including, four Christians, were killed in two ...