BAGHDAD -Reuters - More than 60 people were killed in a series of car bomb explosions targeting Shias across Iraq on Monday, police and medics said, part of the worst sectarian violence since US troops pulled out in December 2011.No group claimed responsibility for the bombings. Iraq is home to a ...

MOSCOW : At least eight people were killed and more than a dozen injured on Monday in twin car blasts outside a court building in the southern Russian city of Makhachkala in the restless region of Dagestan. The local investigative committee said that "within the space of a few minutes, two cars ...

BAQUBA Two bombs near a Sunni mosque and another targeting a Sunni funeral procession killed 49 people in Iraq on Friday, officials said, after two days of attacks against Shias that killed dozens.The surge in violence raises the spectre of tit-for-tat killings common during the height of sectarian ...

  DAMASCUS   Israeli warplanes hit a weapons shipment inSyriaheaded forLebanon's Hezbollah, media quoted US officials as saying, with a diplomatic source reporting Saturday that the strikes targeted arms stored atDamascusairport. The news came as US President Barack Obama appeared to all ...

karachi - Three people were killed and 40 others wounded when two blasts struck near Muttahida Quami Movement headquarters in Karachi on Saturday, sparking scenes of panic, police officials said. The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed the responsibility for the twin bombings. A senior police ...

Peshawar/Kohat/Swabi  -  Ten people were killed and over 45 others injured in three bomb blasts targeting election offices of different candidates and an ANP public meeting in Kohat, Peshawar and Swabi on Sunday.A joint election office of independent candidate Syed Noor Akbar and ANP's ...

Five car bombs exploded Monday in mainly Shiite areas south of Baghdad, killing 16 people, officials said, the latest attacks in a seven-day wave of violence costing more than 230 lives across Iraq.The bloody unrest, which began last Tuesday with deadly clashes between security forces and Sunni ...

The advertisements being aired by Pakistan People's Party (PPP) are a pack of lies and must be condemned.This was stated by former chief minister, Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif while addressing a press conference here in Lahore on Friday.Criticizing the ‘advertisement campaign’ against the ...

QUETTA/PESHAWAR/SWAT - Bomb attacks in different parts of the country wounded over two dozen people on Wednesday, raising security fears ahead of the historic general elections of May 11. The blasts in Quetta, Peshawar, Swat, DI Khan and Jacobabad created scare among the people as the militants ...

PARIS2013AFP Vladimir Putin and the pope joined a chorus of condemnation Tuesday from across the globe over what the Russian leader called the “barbaric” bomb attack that killed three and wounded more than 140 at the Boston Marathon.Here with some of the main reactions from around the ...

BANNU  - The security forces thwarted major terror bid as they recovered and defused two bombs planted in two motorcycles here on Sunday.According to details, the police on suspicion checked two motorcycles parked near public transport terminal in semi-tribal area, Hawaid of Bannu during which ...

MOGADISHU - A nine-man suicide commando blasted its way into Mogadishu's main court complex Sunday, some blowing up their explosives vests while others sprayed gunfire in a rampage that left 29 civilians dead, while a separate bomb attack killed five more.The Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militant group ...

DHAKA - Unidentified people on Saturday hurled three crude bombs apparently targeting a parked car being used by Indian High Commissioner in Bangladesh during a visit to southwestern Khulna district, injuring three people including his driver. "The High Commissioner (Pankaj Saran) is ...

PESHAWAR - Despite having meager resources and staff, the Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has saved thousands of precious lives of innocent people by defusing 5000 bombs in the last four and a half years in KP and Fata.“We are working with the objective of `Safe the ...

A series of car bombs near Shiite mosques targeting worshippers attending weekly prayers killed at least 18 people on Friday, the latest in a spike in unrest ahead of Iraq's first polls since 2010.The blasts, which also wounded more than 100 people, struck within an hour of each other in the ...

BAGHDAD - Three separate bomb attacks killed a member of the Kurdish peshmerga security forces and three construction workers in Iraq on Sunday, officers and doctors said. A bomb blast in an under-construction house in the town of Mishahada, north of Baghdad, killed the workers and wounded another, ...

KIRKUK (AFP) - Car bombs killed four people in Kurdish areas of the disputed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, while roadside bombs killed two more in a nearby Arab town, a security official and a doctor said. The attacks come a day after top security officials from the federal government ...

KABUL  - Bomb blasts and a rocket attack have killed 11 civilians including at least four children in the space of 24 hours in southern Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.A roadside bomb ripped through a pickup truck Saturday in the Chora district of Uruzgan province killing six people, ...

BAGHDAD  - At least 27 bombs struck cities and towns across Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 51 people and wounding nearly 250, despite a massive security clampdown ahead of next week’s Arab League summit in Baghdad.It was Iraq’s bloodiest day in nearly a month, and the scale of ...

DUBAI - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched a fresh tirade against the West, saying the Islamic Republic does not fear military action, Iranian media reported on Sunday.“The Iranian nation doesn’t fear your bombs and warships and planes. Such weapons are worth ...

KARACHI - Separatists attacked railway tracks at two points here and at 12 locations across the Sindh on Saturday and jammed rails’ movement for hours.Unknown persons planted explosive devices at Railway tracks in different areas of the province including Bin Qasim area of Karachi. Irshad ...

DAMASCUS - Twin car bombs targeting security posts in Syria’s second city of Aleppo killed at least 28 people on Friday, state media said, as rebels accused the regime of carrying out the attacks as a diversion.The explosions came as tank-backed troops advanced on pockets of resistance in the ...

BAGHDAD  - Four car bombs exploded in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 75, underlining a political crisis that threatens to revive sectarian strife in Iraq.The first blast hit a group of day labourers gathering for jobs in the poor northeastern Sadr City area of the ...

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Britain is to add "bunker-busting" bombs to the arsenal its warplanes are using over Libya, a weapon it said on Sunday would send a loud message to Muammar Gaddafi that it is time to quit. Britain and other NATO powers are ratcheting up their military intervention in Libya to ...

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Three car bombs aimed at Iraqi security forces killed at least seven people and wounded 78 in the northern city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, police and hospital sources said. The explosions were the latest in a series of attacks on police and soldiers by insurgents as US troops ...

RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Three bombs killed at least six people and wounded 12 more in the Iraqs western city of Ramadi, a local government official said Thursday. We have six people killed, three policemen and three civilians, and 12 more wounded, said Mohammed Fathi, a spokesman for the Anbar ...

HANOI (AFP) - A landmark meeting on cluster munitions has set targets to destroy stockpiles of the weapons, clean up areas contaminated with unexploded ordnance and help victims of the bombs, an activist said Friday. Nations represented at the talks in Laos set a series of one-year targets for ...

ISLAMABAD- The city police claimed to have averted a possible disaster during the Eidul Fitr holidays as the Bomb Disposal Squad defused high explosive bombs planted in an abandoned truck in Rawat, a suburb of the city, police said Monday. According to details, some nine trucks including NATO oil ...

KARACHI - The stock market ended higher on Monday after positive remarks by the World Bank and Indias move for a resumption of talks with Pakistan but dealers said volume was low as investors were cautious. The bourse opened on a negative note but the market soon recovered when OGDC, the main index ...

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea accused the United States Tuesday of stepping up production and deployment of bunker-buster bombs to mount a pre-emptive attack on its nuclear sites. The United States is deploying the bombs to attack underground military targets and nuclear facilities in the North, the ...