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Malta has experienced 19 bomb attacks since 2010, with five people targeted in the last 11 months. Several of these cases are still unsolved, with many cases linked to diesel smuggling, drug trafficking and usury. This week, Malta has been Read More …
At least 43 Afghan soldiers have been killed after two suicide bombers in Humvee trucks targeted a military base in the southern province of Kandahar. Nine others were wounded and six were missing, the defence ministry said. Ten militants were Read More …
An organised crime group is believed to be behind an explosion that blew the doors off a police station in Sweden. The blast, in the early hours of Wednesday, caused severe damage to the main police offices in Helsingborg and Read More …
Malta’s prime minister has appealed for national unity following the murder of a campaigning journalist who had accused his government of corruption. Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, achieved fame and notoriety for investigative reporting laced with scathing commentary about allegedly corrupt officials and Read More …
A massive bomb attack in a busy area of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday is now known to have killed at least 230 people, police say. Hundreds more were wounded when a lorry packed with explosives detonated near the Read More …
At least seven Taliban insurgents have been killed and nine others injured by their own bomb in Alingar district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Tuesday. Sarhadi Zwak, the governor’s spokesman told Pajhwok Afghan News that the incident happened when Read More …
Six soldiers and a civilian were wounded when an alleged improvised explosive device blew up in Janiuay town, Iloilo, on Friday. Members of the 601st Brigade of the Philippine Army and a 64-year-old civilian were struck by shrapnel. The military Read More …
The US-led coalition against so-called Islamic State (IS) says one service member has been killed and a second injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq. An improvised explosive device (IED) struck their vehicle on Sunday, according to a statement. The names Read More …
At least five civilians were killed and six others were wounded in an explosion in Kabul’s PD10 on Friday afternoon, the Ministry of Interior’s spokesman said. The explosion took place near a mosque in Qala-e-Fathullah area in Kabul at around Read More …
More than 30,000 people have been evacuated after a blaze ripped through an ammunition depot in central Ukraine in what Kiev authorities called an act of “sabotage.” The blaze at a military base near Kalynivka in the Vinnytsa region, about Read More …
Thieves used explosives to steal an ATM cash box from a Waterloo bank in the early hours of this morning. The raiders – described as four young males in black clothing – made off in a black Audi after the blast. The Read More …
The militant Pakistani Taliban group said it carried out an attack on Sunday that killed five people in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Mohammad Khurassani said the militants planted an improvised explosive device “to target security Read More …
A bomb which exploded outside a café was packed with nails and screws. It was left under the shutters of The Lounge in Pendleton, Salford, earlier this week. It damaged the shutters, canopy, windows and pavement outside the cafe. The Read More …
Police are investigating an incident on a London Underground train, amid reports of an explosion. The blast left a number of passengers with facial burns, it has been reported. Scotland Yard said it was aware of the incident at Parsons Read More …
At least 18 policemen have been killed in an attack on a convoy in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula claimed by so-called Islamic State, security sources say. Militants detonated a roadside bomb near the town of el-Arish, reportedly destroying three armoured vehicles Read More …
A suicide bomber in an explosives-packed vehicle attacked a NATO convoy in Afghanistan on Monday, wounding “a small number” of foreign troops and at least three civilians, officials said. The soldiers were taken to the nearby Bagram Air Field and Read More …
On 8 September at 18:08 a car blast rocked the area of Bessarabska Ploshcha in the center of Kyiv. Preliminarily, an unidentified explosive device was planted in the Black Toyota Camry with a Georgian registration plate. The spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Affairs Read More …
A vehicle belonging to an international monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine that struck a landmine in April, killing a U.S. paramedic on board, was not the mine’s intended target, an independent investigation has found. The death was the first suffered Read More …
Isis has claimed responsibility for an attack on a mosque in Kabul that left at least 30 dead. The group’s propaganda agency, Amaq, released a statement shortly after the attack saying its fighters were behind the killings. Gunmen stormed the Shia mosque, attacking Read More …
The two terror attacks in Spain have been linked to a house explosion in the tourist district of Alcanar. One person was killed in the blast in Alcanar, about 100 miles southwest of Barcelona, on Wednesday night. he explosion, in Read More …