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By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least 13 people were killed and more than 30 others wounded in a suicide attack on the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MoRRD) in the Afghan capital Kabul, an official said on Monday. Hashmat Stanikzai, spokesman for the police headquarters in Kabul, told Anadolu Agency […]

7th Jun 2018

Iraq: Twin bombing kills 18, injures 100 in Sadr City

By Ali Semerci BAGHDAD (AA): At least 18 people were killed and 100 injured Wednesday in twin suicide blasts in the Iraqi capital, according to a hospital authority and a local police officer. The blasts occurred when unidentified terrorists detonated two bombs planted near a mosque used by Shia Muslim community in Baghdad’s Sadr […]

5th Jun 2018

Afghanistan: Suicide attack targets Kabul scholars against terrorism, 14 killed

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least 14 people were killed and some 20 wounded in a suicide bomb attack targeting a gathering of religious scholars in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Monday, according to police. “Tight security was in place for the gathering of the Ulamas [religious scholars] in the Loya Jirga […]

24th May 2018

Iraq: Suicide bombing kills 12, injures 11 in Baghdad

By Haydar Hadi BAGHDAD (AA): At least twelve Iraqi civilians were killed Thursday in a suicide bombing north of the capital, according to a security source. The suicide bombers targeted a park in the al-Shuala area north of Baghdad, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to […]

14th May 2018

Indonesia: church bombings leave 13 dead, 43 injured

By Ainur Rohmah YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AA) – At least 13 people were killed and 43 injured in a string of suicide bombings that targeted Sunday Mass congregations at three churches in Indonesia’s second largest city Surabaya. Meanwhile Monday morning, a family of five, including an eight-year-old child carried out a bomb attack on a police […]

29th Apr 2018

Somalia: Suicide attack kills at least 5

By Mohammed Dhaysane MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA): At least five people, including a colonel, were killed Saturday when a suicide attacker blew himself up near a military camp in the city of Galkayo in the north-central Mudug region of Somalia, officials said. “An enemy man wearing an improvised device blew himself up near our military […]

23rd Apr 2018

Nigeria: Suicide bombing in mosque kills 4 in Borno State

By Olarewaju Kola 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 and two other male […]

25th Jan 2018

Afghanistan: Suicide attack on British charity in Jalalabad kills two

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least two people were killed and 10 others wounded Wednesday when a suicide car bomber targeted an office of the British charity Save the Children in eastern Nangarhar province’s city of Jalalabad, according to preliminary reports. The attack was followed by gunfire; clashes between security forces […]

15th Jan 2018

Iraq: Double suicide bombing kills 25 in Baghdad

By Ali Jawad and Haydar Hadi BAGHDAD (AA): At least 25 people were killed in a double suicide bombing in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Monday, according to a local security official. More than 90 people were also injured in the attack in Tayaran Square in the city center, police captain Ahmed Khalaf told […]

10th Jan 2018

Pakistan: Suicide blast kills 7 in Quetta

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): A suspected suicide bomber detonated himself up near a police patrolling vehicle in Quetta, the capital of southwestern Balochistan province killing seven persons, and injured another 15 on Tuesday evening, police and local media reported. The suspected bomber, who acted alone, targeted a patrolling truck at busy Zargoon road- […]

5th Jan 2018

Afghanistan: Suicide attack kills 11 in Kabul

By Sayed Khodaberdi Sadat KABUL (AA): At least 11 people were killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Thursday, a security official said. 25 people were also wounded in the attack. The incident took place close to a police vehicle in Kabul’s Banayi area, it added. The blast happened close to […]

29th Dec 2017

Afghanistan: Suicide attack in Shia Muslim cultural centre in Kabul claims 41 lives

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): A suicide attack at a facility hosting a news agency and a cultural center in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday has claimed 41 lives. Nasrat Rehimi, deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, told Anadolu Agency 41 people, mostly civilians, were killed and 80 others injured. “Most […]

25th Dec 2017

Afghanistan: Suicide attack by Daesh kills 6 in Kabul

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): A suicide blast close to the compound of Afghanistan’s top spy agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), in the capital Kabul on Monday killed at least six people, officials confirmed. Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, told Anadolu Agency that six people were killed […]

17th Dec 2017

Pakistan: Church blast in Balochistan kills 5, injures 16

By Aamir Latif KARACHI (AA): At least five people have been killed and dozens are feared injured in a blast at a church in southwestern Pakistan, followed by security forces trying to overpower heavily armed terrorists, officials and local media reported. The blast took place at 12 noon (0700GMT), Sunday, when people were attending […]

3rd Dec 2017

Nigeria: Twin suicide bombings kill 13 in northeast Nigeria

By Olarewaju Kola MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA): At least 13 people were killed and 30 wounded on Saturday in two suspected suicide bombings in Nigeria’s northeast, police said. Two female suicide bombers entered a marketplace in Biu, the third largest city in Borno State at 11.40 a.m. local time (1240GMT), police added. Victor Isuku, […]

24th Nov 2017

Egypt: 85 killed from bomb explosion in mosque after Friday prayers in Sinai

By Hussein al-Qabbani and Viola Fahmi CAIRO (AA): The death toll from a bomb that went off outside a mosque in the city of Al-Arish in the northern Sinai Peninsula following Friday prayers has risen to 85, according to official sources. “The number of people martyred in the Al-Arish terrorist incident has risen to […]

21st Nov 2017

Nigeria: Suicide attack on mosque in NE Nigeria kills over 50

By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, Nigeria (AA): At least 50 people have been killed and several dozens injured in a suicide attack at a mosque in the northeastern Adamawa state of Nigeria on Tuesday morning, police said. “At around 5.20 a.m. [0420GMT] today, a boy around 17 years of age detonated a suicide vest shortly […]

29th Oct 2017

Somalia: 23 dead in Mogadishu twin suicide car bomb attack

By Mohammed Dhaysane MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA): At least 23 people, including a former lawmaker and a police official were killed and more than 30 others wounded in two suspected suicide car blasts at a hotel in capital Mogadishu on Saturday evening, according to police. Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Police Officer Ali Mohamed […]

16th Oct 2017

Somalia: Death toll from Mogadishu truck bombing rises to 270

By Mohammed Dhaysane MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA):The death toll from Saturday’s suicide bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu has climbed to well above 270, with just as many or more injured, a federal member of parliament said Sunday. MP Mahad Salad said in a statement posted on his official Facebook page that 230 had been […]

19th Sep 2017

Nigeria: Triple suicide bombing killing 12 blamed on Boko Haram

By Olarewaju Kola MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA): Twelve people were killed and 26 others injured in suspected triple suicide bombings in northeastern Borno State on Monday, according to an official emergency official. State Emergency Management Chairman Ahmed Satomi confirmed the death and injury tolls while speaking with reporters. Boko Haram is suspected to be behind […]

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