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A man has set off a small explosive device close to the US embassy in Beijing, officials have confirmed. Apart from the attacker, there were no injuries reported and officials say police responded immediately. Video and images posted on social Read More …
At least 215 people have died in a series of apparently co-ordinated attacks in south-western Syria, local officials and a monitoring group say. Several suicide bombings struck in and around the government-held city of Suweida – the main city in Read More …
Five policemen and two children were among the victims of the attack in the city of Quetta. There are fears the death toll could rise as many of the 35 people wounded are in a critical condition. Terror group Islamic Read More …
An Afghan official says an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) suicide bomber has killed 20 people in northern Afghanistan, including a Taliban commander. Abdul Qayuom Baqizoi, provincial chief police of northern Sar-i-Pul province, said the attack Tuesday took Read More …
Two suicide bombers have killed 132 people including a political candidate, as violence continues before Pakistan heads to the polls. Friday’s attacks were the deadliest in Pakistan’s troubled election campaign and took place just before disgraced Nawar Sharif was arrested Read More …
The Pakistani Taliban said it was behind the attack, which targeted the Awami National Party (ANP) rally in the city of Peshawar. Haroon Ahmed Bilour, who was standing for election in the provincial legislature, was among those died in the Read More …
At least nine civilians were wounded in a bomb attack at a public picnic area in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar on Monday, authorities said. The blast occurred after an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated at a public picnic Read More …
Six Kenyan police officers were injured on Tuesday evening after the vehicle in which they were traveling in ran over an improvised explosive device (IED) in Garissa country near the Somali border. David Kerina, Garissa County Police Commander, confirmed the Read More …
Jamaat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, a terrorist organization outlawed in Russia, has been found to be behind the last year’s terror attack on St. Petersburg’s metro, an investigator told a Moscow City Court hearing on this case on Tuesday. “It has been Read More …
An attack on a military patrol in northern Mali on Sunday killed four civilians and wounded 31 others, including four French soldiers, Mali’s government and the French army said. The ambush, which involved a car bomb explosion followed by gunfire, Read More …
Eight soldiers were wounded in an accidental explosion involving an improvised explosive device (IED) they recovered following a clash with Abu Sayyaf bandits in Sulu, the military reported. Brig. Gen. Divino Rey Pabayo, Joint Task Force Sulu commander, disclosed that Read More …
Zimbabwe’s government is calling an explosion Saturday an assassination attempt on President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was holding a campaign rally at a stadium. The President escaped injuries, but others were injured and hospitalized. The blast occurred at White City Stadium Read More …
Eight police personnel were killed on Sunday when their vehicle drove over an improvised explosive device in Bojigaras area, Wajir County, according to a government official. North Eastern regional coordinator Muhammad Saleh told Anadolu Agency: “We are pursuing the attackers Read More …
A car bomb killed at least 26 people at a gathering of Taliban and Afghan armed forces in the eastern city of Nangarhar on Saturday, an official said, as soldiers and militants celebrated an unprecedented Eid ceasefire. Islamic State claimed Read More …
A 10-year-old child was killed and seven people wounded in a blast in Jalalabad city, capital of Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar on Wednesday, provincial government said in a statement. The explosion occurred roughly at 6:00 a.m. local time in Read More …
Thirty-four militants and seven police were killed and 14 people were wounded in daily violence in Afghanistan, authorities said Monday. In one incident, 12 civilians were wounded after an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated at a public picnic area Read More …
A 34-year-old Federal Way man accused of blowing up his SUV with homemade explosives on Tuesday evening was charged Thursday with possession of an incendiary device, according to King County prosecutors. Police and federal agents seized 22 pounds of triacetone triperoxide, known Read More …
At least 18 people were killed and over 90 wounded in an explosion in Baghdad’s Sadr City district on Wednesday, an Iraqi police source said. An interior ministry spokesman said in a brief statement the blast was the result of Read More …
At least five police officers have been killed in an Al Shabaab attack in Liboi. Police said those killed are General Service Unit officers whose vehicle was blown up after driving over an Improvised Explosive Device. Dadaab Deputy County Commissioner Read More …
The U.S. Army has hired a private contractor to fly an old Boeing 777 airliner from Saudi Arabia to the United States just so it can blow it apart. It may sound like a piece of the conspiracy at the center of Read More …