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A suicide bomber drove an explosive-laden truck into a checkpoint in Afghanistan late on Wednesday killing 11 people, as peace talks between the government and Taliban militants in Qatar seemed to have no bearing on the violence at home. No group claimed responsibility for the attack in the southern province …

A bomb blast at a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in eastern Baghdad wounded at least seven people on Friday, security sources said, correcting earlier reports of seven killed. Police sources said on Friday a suicide belt or improvised explosive device had been used in the attack in the Baladiyat neighbourhood, for …

A suicide bomber killed at least 13 people at the entrance of an Afghan government building Monday, the day before a truce with Taliban insurgents was supposed to take hold. The Health Ministry said 13 employees of the Ministry of Rural Development were killed and 25 were wounded when the …

An attack targeting a meeting of Afghanistan’s top religious body on Monday left at least seven people dead and nine others wounded, according to Kabul police. Ghafor Aziz, the police chief of Kabul’s 5th District, said officers were working to secure the area after the attack. A suicide bomber struck …

A suicide blast killed 48 people — including five children — and wounded over 100 more on Sunday at a voter registration center in Kabul, according to Afghan officials. Carnage in Kabul adds to US challenges in Afghanistan The bomber was on foot when he detonated his explosives at the …

A suicide bombing has killed at least 95 people and injured 158 others in the centre of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, officials say. Attackers drove an ambulance laden with explosives past a police checkpoint into a street that was only open to government workers. It happened near the old interior ministry …

Suicide bombers killed more than 40 people and left scores injured Thursday, setting off multiple explosions at a gathering inside a pro-Iranian cultural center in the Afghan capital. It was the latest attack in a terrorist campaign against the minority ethnic Shiite community that has intensified over the past two …

A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up at a bank not far from the U.S. embassy in Kabul, killing five people on Tuesday, as government employees lined up to withdraw salaries ahead of the holiday. An airstrike meant for a Taliban command post north of the capital in Herat also …

A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of international troops near the airport in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Wednesday, a security official said, and the NATO-led military coalition confirmed there were casualties. “We are working to gather additional information as quickly as possible and will release more details …

Bombers killed two people and wounded 11 others at a U.N.-managed camp in Niger housing thousands of people who have fled Boko Haram violence in the first suicide attack in the region in a year, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday. Two women entered the camp in Kabelawa, around …

A terror plot to attack the Grand Mosque in Mecca has been foiled by security forces, the Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry announced on Friday, Al Arabiya TV and state television Al-Ekhbariya report. According to the spokesman, the attack was planned by three terror groups, two based in Mecca and the …

Reuters – A suicide bomber killed at least 23 people in central Yemen on Wednesday when he blew himself up at a cultural center where students were celebrating the Prophet Mohammad’s birthday, state news agency Saba said. At least 48 people were also injured, including many women and children and …