KIRKUK : Several bomb blasts killed at least 12 people in Iraq on Tuesday, police said. More than 200 people have been killed in the past week as sectarian tensions, fuelled by the civil war in neighbouring Syria, threaten to plunge Iraq back into communal bloodletting. In Tuesday's violence, three ...

BAGHDAD: Bombings inIraq, including a series of blasts mainly targeting Shia areas ofBaghdad, killed at least 25 people and wounded 68 on Wednesday, security and medical officials said. Car bombs hit Kadhimiyah andSadrCityin northBaghdad, Saidiyah in the south and Mashtal and Baghdad Jadida in the ...

REYHANLI  - Turkey on Sunday said it has arrested nine people over the twin car bombings that left at least 46 people dead in a Turkish town near the Syrian border, as Damascus rejected allegations that it was behind the attack.Cranes were seen lifting debris from buildings destroyed by ...

Karachi/Quetta/Peshawar/Lahore - Violence continued unabated on the eve of landmark general elections, with 17 people killed on Friday in bombings and militant attacks on political workers, election offices and polling stations in Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta and other areas the country.A senior ...

bannu/hangu - Seven people including two women were killed and 55 others sustained injuries in three bombing incidents in Bannu, Hangu and Upper Dir on Wednesday.After Fajar prayer, an explosives-laden vehicle was rammed into the back wall of Domail Police Station. A few quarters situated inside ...

BAGHDAD : Three bomb attacks in Iraq on Wednesday killed 11 people, including four anti-Qaeda fighters who died when a suicide bomber struck as they gathered to collect their salaries, officials said.The bomber, who was on foot, detonated explosives at a police station in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, ...

BAGHDAD A dozen small bombs exploded and mortar rounds landed near polling centres in Iraq on Saturday, wounding at least four people during voting in the country's first provincial elections since the departure of US troops.Two mortar rounds injured three voters and a policeman at a school used as ...

NEW YORK  - Investigators have identified and arrested a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three and injured 175, CNN reported Wednesday, citing official sources.The suspect, described as a ‘dark-skinned male’, was picked up on security camera video from a ...

BAGHDAD  - Bombings in Iraq, including one against a governor's convoy, killed eight people on Tuesday, a day after a wave of attacks left 50 dead ahead of the first elections since US troops withdrew.A car bomb killed four people and wounded 15 in Aziziyah, while a roadside bomb killed a ...

BAGHDAD - Bombings in and around the Iraqi capital, including two car bombs near a football field, killed at least 26 people and wounded more than 60 others on Thursday, security and medical officials said. With the latest violence, more than 210 people have been killed and over 550 wounded in ...

Simultaneous bombings in the mostly Druze and Christian town of Jaramana near Damascus killed at least 29 people and left dozens injured on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said."The number of people killed by two car bombs in the town of Jaramana has risen to 29," said the ...

KIRKUK (AFP) - A spate of apparently coordinated attacks across Iraq on the eve of a festival marking the Islamic New Year killed 19 people and wounded more than 150 others on Wednesday, officials said. The 13 bombings and shootings struck in Baghdad and nine other cities, the security and medical ...

BAGHDAD - A wave of attacks against Shias killed at least 68 people on Thursday, the worst toll in nearly five months, as Iraq grappled with a weeks-long political row that has stoked sectarian tensions.The violence, which also wounded more than 100, comes two weeks after a crisis erupted when Vice ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Al-Qaeda's Iraq franchise claimed responsibility for a wave of bombings last week that killed scores of people and heightened sectarian tensions days after the withdrawal of US troops.The self-proclaimed "Islamic State of Iraq," inspired by the late Osama bin Laden, issued a ...

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik Monday discussed ways and means to control the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) bombings with a US delegation led by Lt Gen Michael Barbero, Director Joint IED Defeat Organisation, USA. The discussion took place when the US delegation called on Interior ...

SWABI (Reuters) - Seven-year-old Marwa cried and shook uncontrollably at the sight of the rubble and shattered glass remnants of her classroom. The Taliban had bombed yet another girls school. I had to pick her up and hold her close to my chest. My worry is that we will spend our time helping the ...

TIKRIT (AFP) - A twin attack Thursday involving a car bomb and a suicide bombing in Tikrit killed 12 people near a bank and a market crowded with shoppers stocking up for Ramadan, Iraqi officials said. At least 28 people were also wounded in the attack, a health department official said, while a ...

The bombs went off today just as most of Mumbai was ending work. At 6:45pm, Janardhan Bedkar, 35, an office helper at a diamond showroom in Opera House district, went on an errand for his boss, picking up a packet from a nearby paan shop. As he stood at a roadside paan shop, the area around him was ...

LONDON (AFP) - There is no evidence that the security services could have prevented the 2005 London bombings, a coroner found Friday while warning that changes were necessary to help prevent further such atrocities. The exhaustive inquests examining the deaths of the 52 victims of the ...

LONDON (AFP) - The exhaustive inquests into the London bombings are to deliver their verdicts on Friday, with the outcome all the more poignant following the death of terror chief Osama bin Laden. The July 7, 2005 attacks on London's transport network killed 52 commuters and were perpetrated by ...

WASHINGTON - An Indian Swami has laid bare the extent of prejudice against Muslims in 'secular India and the hollowness of New Delhis frequent and convenient allegations of Pakistans link to terrorist incidents in India. In confessions, Swami Aseemanand said Hindu radicals were behind a spate of ...

Nasir Mohmand, Nader Buneri and Said Alam Khan MOHMAND AGENCY/PESHAWAR As many as 51 persons were killed and 120 others including officials of the agency administration got injured as a result of twin suicide blasts in front of the office of Political Agent in Ghallani, headquarters of Mohmand ...

ISLAMABAD Israel and its local agents are behind the Al-Quds Day bombing in Quetta and the Balochistan Government and Quetta administration is also involved in it, as the incident took place due to their negligence. The representatives of Imamia Students Organisation (ISO) and ...

BAGHDAD (AFP/Reuters) - A wave of bombs targeting namazis at mosques across Baghdad killed 29 people and wounded more than 136 on Friday a month after US troops withdrew from Iraqs main urban centres. Security officials said the six apparently coordinated blasts occurred outside mosques and prayer ...

PHUKET, Thailand, (AFP) - Asian foreign ministers met on Sunday ahead of the continents biggest security dialogue, under the shadow of the Jakarta bomb attacks and North Koreas nuclear programme. A proposed regional rights body that critics say will lack teeth to tackle violators such as Myanmar is ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - US forces have killed an Al-Qaeda militant who planned some of the biggest bombings in Baghdad and who killed a group of Russian diplomats in 2006, the military said on Saturday. Mahir Ahmad Mahmud al-Zubaydi, also known as Abu Assad or Abu Rami, was killed along with an ...

President Asif Ali Zardari said Tuesday Islamabad suicide blast was challenge for democracy in Pakistan and reiterated his government's resolve to fight against terrorism. In an interview with the American news channel, President Zardari said terrorists are challenging Pakistan's democracy and its ...