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A roadside bomb killed four troops in northern Burkina Faso, an area wracked by jihadi insurgency, the army said on Saturday, while three civilians died in another strike in the same region. The troops were killed on Friday when an Read More …
Yemen’s separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) said Saturday a senior commander was killed in a bomb explosion in the southern Shabwa province. In a statement, the STC-affiliated Shabwa Defense Forces said Major Salem Al-Jabwani lost his life in the explosion Read More …
15-year-old Aryeh Shtsupak has been named as the teen killed in the Jerusalem terror attack on Wednesday morning. An additional 19 people were wounded, one critically, in two explosions at the entrance to Jerusalem and the Ramot Junction on Wednesday Read More …
A massive car-bomb blast ripped through the supposedly safe green zone of downtown Narathiwat on Tuesday afternoon, killing one policeman and injuring 16 others. The explosion occurred at 12.50pm inside the compound of Narathiwat police residential flats in Muang district. Read More …
The Taliban government security authorities said that the explosion that took place in the Police District 4 of Kabul, the Afghan capital, resulted in 2 fatalities. According to Khalid Zadran, the spokesman for the Taliban government’s Kabul police chief, the Read More …
A 40-year-old man is being questioned here in connection with the autorickshaw blast in Karnataka’s Mangaluru as the mobile SIM card used by the accused was allegedly bought using his Aadhar card, police said on Sunday. Based on information, police Read More …
An improvised explosive device (IED) detonated on the road to Timbuktu, Mali, on Monday morning injured three UN peacekeepers, a UN spokesman said. “The UN condemns the attack and wish the peacekeepers a speedy recovery,” said Farhan Haq, the deputy Read More …
Sweden’s prosecutor’s office said Friday that an investigation into gas leaks from two underwater pipelines connecting Russia to Germany found traces of explosives, confirming it is a case of “serious sabotage.” Swedish and Danish investigators are probing a flurry of Read More …
Police in Northern Ireland said Friday that two officers escaped injury when their vehicle was damaged by a homemade bomb. The force said it was treating the attack as attempted murder. The Police Service of Northern Ireland said the blast Read More …
A nine-year-old girl died in a crude bomb explosion at Minakhan in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district. The incident occurred on Wednesday evening and the police on Thursday arrested her uncle Abul Hussain Gayen for storing crude bombs in Read More …
An improvised explosive device went off when it was being allegedly made in a room of a cadre belonging to the Biplab-led Maoist party on Wednesday. The IED exploded when it was being made in the room of Dilli Chhetri Read More …
Five people, all civilians, were injured after a hand-grenade exploded in Mazar-i-Sharif city, capital of northern Balkh province on Tuesday, provincial police spokesman Mohammad Asif Waziri said on Wednesday. Confirming the accident, the official said that unidentified men threw a Read More …
At least six people were killed and 53 others injured when an explosion hit Istanbul’s popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue on Sunday. The casualties were confirmed by official sources. “The relevant units of our state are working to find the perpetrators Read More …
The FBI, the San Antonio police and fire departments are working to find the person responsible for an explosion that damaged a statue downtown. Around 3 a.m. Monday, authorities received reports of an explosion in the 300 block of West Read More …
Somalia’s largest telecommunications company, Hormuud Telecom, says one of its centers and a telecommunications tower have been destroyed in an explosion in Qaayib, a village in the Galmudug state of Somalia. The company said a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) Read More …
Six U.N. peacekeepers were wounded in central Mali when two armored vehicles in a convoy were hit by separate improvised explosive devices, the United Nations said Monday. The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali reported that the incidents took place in Read More …
An IED blast claimed the lives of a senior officer and three members of a Bedouin pro-government militia on Sunday, in the latest attack on security forces in the restive North Sinai. Militants belonging to the Islamic State group remain Read More …
A passenger was killed while 11 others were badly hurt in a bomb explosion inside a bus in Tacurong City in Sultan Kudarat province at noon on Sunday. Police Lt. Col. Joan Maganto, chief of the Tacurong City Police, said Read More …
Police in Somalia say at least two people have been killed and five others wounded by a roadside explosion that hit a vehicle carrying students in the Dayniile district of Mogadishu. “Those wounded include people traveling with the students, and Read More …
The Somali army chief has confirmed that at least 5 people died and 11 were injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Gen Dhagabadan Army Training Camp in southern Mogadishu on Sunday evening. Speaking to the state Read More …