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A bomb blast targeting a military truck killed seven soldiers on Sunday in northwestern Pakistan along the border with Afghanistan, the army said. The incident took place in the Lakki Marwat district which is on the edge of a lawless Read More …
Gunmen in northern Kenya fatally shot four construction workers at a hospital site near a refugee camp and the border with Somalia where a militant group is active, police said Saturday. A group of eight workers were resting Friday when Read More …
The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has conducted 180 Intelligence-Based Operations (IBOs) in various cities of Punjab and apprehended 15 terrorists. The CTD spokesman said that a wanted terrorist affiliated with the banned TTP who was trained in South Waziristan, arrested in Read More …
Heavy fighting was reported in central regions of Somalia on Saturday morning, multiple sources confirmed, with the al-Shabaab targeting El-Dheer, a town which is an epicenter of tussles between the government troops and the militants. Al-Shabaab has persistently attacked the Read More …
Rebel fighters affiliated with ISIL (ISIS) have killed at least 38 people in an overnight attack on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), officials and a civil society leader in the region have said. The armed men Read More …
Police in Mandera East on Wednesday, June 5 averted a possible tragedy when they recovered and demolished an IED planted in an abandoned house. Corporal Ibrahim Isaac says that at around 9 am while manning the border at Border Point Read More …
A child was killed and another injured when they fell prey to a roadside blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Mamond tehsil of Bajaur district on Wednesday. Police said the incident occurred in Loi Kharkai area of Mamond Read More …
An explosion occurred at a primary school in southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region, killing one child and injuring 23 people, the Information Team of Myanmar’s State Administration Council reported on late Tuesday. The explosion occurred at around 12:40 p.m. local time Read More …
Government troopers and New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas clashed in Balbalan, Kalinga on Friday, leaving two soldiers wounded. Maj. Rigor Pamittan, 5th Infantry Division public affairs chief, said soldiers belonging to the 103rd and 98th Infantry Battalions under the 503rd Read More …
At least four Pakistan Army soldiers were killed while three others injured in an IED blast in the country’s restive northwest region, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred late on Friday evening when the security forces were on patrolling Read More …
Militants enforcing a separatist lockdown in Nigeria’s southeastern region attacked security forces deployed to restore order, killing five soldiers and six civilians during a shootout, the Nigerian military said Friday. The soldiers were attacked on Thursday at a checkpoint in Read More …
Yemen’s Houthis say they have launched a missile attack on a United States aircraft carrier in the Red Sea in response to deadly US and British strikes on Yemen. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree announced the attack on the Eisenhower Read More …
A day after a tribal youth was found killed by Maoists in Kandhamal’s Badipanga village, SOG and CRPF jawans recovered a pressure bomb reportedly planted by the ultras in nearby Kotagarh forest on Tuesday. While the security personnel were combing Read More …
A group of militants used kerosine to set fire to a girls’ school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying furniture, computers and books, police said Wednesday, in the latest in a surge in such attacks. No one was hurt Read More …
A man was killed and two others wounded when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device (IED) planted at a roadside in Mamund tehsil of Bajaur district on Monday. Police and locals said the incident occurred in Lara Bandagi area Read More …
Pakistan’s National Counter-Terrorism Authority Coordinator Muhammad Tahir Rai said Sunday that security forces have arrested 11 suspects accused involved in an attack on Chinese nationals in March this year. Addressing a joint press conference here with Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, Read More …
Five members of militias loyal to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were killed in an attack by the Islamic State group (IS) in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor on Sunday. The deadly attack was the result of an improvised Read More …
In the post-9/11 scenario, suicide bombing emerged as the deadliest and most popular terrorist strategy adopted by various groups around the world. After 9/11, there was an intensification in both the frequency and innovation of suicide bombings. Among these, the Read More …
Over 20 civilians were killed in an attack in central Mali on Saturday, a local official said on Sunday. The attack targeted a village in the Circle of Bankass in Mopti region – one of several areas in Mali’s north Read More …
At least one person was killed late Saturday when a makeshift bomb exploded in a crowded bar in Cameroon’s war-torn English-speaking region of Northwest, according to local and security sources. An army official told Xinhua that the improvised explosive device Read More …