A suicide bomber rammed his car into a bus carrying Iranian Shi'ite pilgrims in Iraq on Friday, killing at least nine people in an attack likely carried out by Sunni insurgents trying to ignite sectarian conflict.Al Qaeda's local wing and other Sunni insurgents have unleashed a wave of attacks ...

MOSCOW : A female suicide bomber blew herself up in front of policemen in Russia’s Dagestan on Saturday, injuring 18 people in the second bombing attack to hit the restive region this week, officials said.Two of the victims — both policemen — were in a critical condition, police ...

PESHAWAR/KHYBER AGENCY - At least three people were killed and seven others injured when a suicide bomber targeted Afghan religious figure’s vehicle near a seminary in Peshawar suburbs on Friday.The Afghan religious leader and chief of Jamaatul Dawat Alquran and Al-Sunnah Haji Hayatullah was ...

NEW YORK - Bleeding and hunted by police, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the prime suspect in the Boston marathon bombings, who was found hiding in a boat days after the blasts, left a handwritten message describing the attack as retribution for U.S. wars in Muslim countries, CBS News reported on Thursday.The ...

KABUL  -  A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans, Afghan and foreign officials said, in one of the worst attacks in the Afghan capital in months.Forty people were wounded in the blast during ...

QUETTA  - At least six people were killed and over 50 others wounded when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near Balochistan Police chief’s residence in Quetta late on Sunday night. Security sources said an unidentified bomber struck his explosives-packed vehicle ...

TIKRIT : - A suicide bomber targeted the home of a senior Iraqi intelligence officer north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing three people, while three more died in other attacks, officials said.The bomber detonated a small tanker truck at the home of police Brigadier General Ismail al-Juburi, a ...

WASHINGTON : American investigators are ramping up their focus on Katherine Russell, the widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect and alleged planner Tamerlan Tsarnaev after an inspection of her computer turned up al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine and other radical Islamist material, according to ...

MAKHACHKALA, Russia:One of the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings had made links with two figures in the anti-Kremlin insurgency in the Northern Caucasus, both of whom were killed by Russian security forces, a source said Monday. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was known to have been in ...

Peshawar - Ten people, including son and nephew of ex-deputy prime minister of Afghanistan, were killed and 70 others wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a bus in Peshawar on Monday morning. Security officials said the target was a police mobile van. Qazi Muhammad Ameen ...

  NEW YORK Russian authorities secretly recorded one of theBostonbombers suspects discussing ‘jihad’ with his mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, in 2011 but failed to alertUSsecurity agencies, according to US media reports. US officials were told for the first time this week that two ...

BAJAUR AGENCY - At least four people including a personnel of Bajaur Levies Force and a health worker were killed and five others injured when a female suicide bomber blew herself up at the main gate of Agency Headquarters Hospital Khar of Bajaur Agency on Saturday.Four people including personnel ...

MARDAN - The local police has traced the name of one suicide bomber of the Katlong bazaar and raided his house recovering weapons from his house, a police official said on Sunday. District Police Officer (DPO) Mardan Tahir Ayuab Khan while talking to TheNation said that on Saturday during the ...

ANKARA  - A suicide bomber suspected to be a militant from an outlawed leftwing group blew himself up at the US embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing a Turkish security guard and wounding several other people, officials said.The bombing at a security roadblock near the entrance to the ...

HANGU – At least 27 people were killed and over 50 others sustained injuries when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque soon after Friday prayers in district Hangu.The bomber detonated his explosives-packed motorcycle at the main gate of Faizullah Mosque in a crowded market ...

SOUTH WAZIRISTAN/PESHAWAR - At least seven people were killed and 10 others including a prominent Taliban commander Maulvi Nazir were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at Rustam Bazaar in South Waziristan Agency on Thursday. Local sources said the suicide bomber, riding a bike, ...

LAKKI MARWAT/KHYBER AGENCY - A bomber was killed when the suicide vest he was wearing detonated in an exchange of fire with a police party in Baghban area of Lakki Marwat late on Friday evening. According to DPO Muhammad Idrees, the bomber was trying to sneak into Sayyedan locality, where a ...

RAWALPINDI - The investigators have taken fingerprints of the suicide bomber, who hit a procession in Dhoke Seydan, to match it with the NADRA record.The body parts of the suicide bomber, including hands and legs, had been collected by the Civil Defense Department from the blast place, were also ...

KABUL  - A suicide bomber slaughtered more than 40 people, including five children, when he struck at a mosque in northern Afghanistan after Eidul Azha prayers on Friday, officials said.It was the worst death toll in a single attack in Afghanistan since 80 died on December 6 last year in a ...

KHYBER AGENCY - - A deadly suicide blast at a centre of banned outfit Lashkar-e-Islam in Tirah Valley killed 13 people and injured 10 others.The blast took place in the Akkakhel area of Bara in Khyber Agency. According to spokesperson of LI Abu Rashid Lashkari, the bomber was heading towards Dars ...

PARACHINAR - A suicide motorbike bomber detonated his explosive vest outside a mosque at a market Friday in Kurram tribal region, killing at least 26 people.The bomber struck outside the mosque in a busy market after Friday prayers in the latest attack by militants. The casualties occurred after ...

BANGKOK  - An Iranian man was seriously wounded in Bangkok on Tuesday when a bomb he was carrying exploded and blew one of his legs off, police and government officials said, but they declined to speculate on whether he was involved with any militant group.Shortly before, there had been an ...

JAKARTA - A militant arrested in the same Pakistani town where US commandos later killed Osama bin Laden stood trial in Indonesia Monday on charges including murder for the 2002 Bali bombings. Umar Patek, 45, faces five other counts, including bomb-making and illegal firearms possession, and ...

DETROIT, Michigan (AFP) - The so-called "underwear bomber" pleaded guilty Wednesday to trying to blow up a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009, saying he had sought to avenge the killing of innocent Muslims. In a six-minute speech to a shocked courtroom on the second day of his high ...

ISLAMABAD (Agencies) - A Pakistani security official said Wednesday that Umar Patek, an alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombing, has been arrested by Pakistani security agencies. The official would not say when and where he was arrested. Yes, it is confirmed we have arrested him, he is in ...

KARACHI A suicide blast was reported Tuesday from the Sukhen police precincts on the outskirts of Shah Latif Town. Police said that they rushed to MDA flats on hearing a bang and found the limbs of a man lying scattered in a crater caused by the blast. The explosion was heard in localities miles ...

LAHORE The suicide bomber who rocked the city on Tuesday night leaving 16 dead and scores injured belonged to North Waziristan. He was fully trained but badly failed in achieving his targets, official source said. They said during the investigation it had been established that some hired criminals ...

KOHAT (Online) - The security forces have arrested a would-be suicide bomber here in Kohat Cantt, a private TV reported on Monday. According to details, a suicide bomber who tried to enter Kohat Cantt was arrested by security forces. The forces have also recovered a suicide jacket from his ...

KARACHI/BEIJING (Reuters) Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Thursday he thought it unlikely that a Pakistani-American arrested over a failed plot to bomb New Yorks Times Square had acted alone. Investigations in Pakistan have uncovered possible links between Faisal Shahzad, 30, the Pakistani ...

LOWER DIR Fifty-two workers of the ruling Awami National Party were killed while more than 100 others got injured when a suicide bomber entered Rest House Timergara and blew himself up on Monday in a public gathering organised by ANP to celebrate the renaming of the province. Eyewitnesses told ...