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At least 10 persons including seven security personnel were wounded when a suicide car bomber targeted the vehicle of Frontier Corps at the posh Hayatabad Township on Tuesday. The blast was a suicide attack and its target was the FC Read More …
The acting governor of a northeastern Afghan province has been killed in a car bombing, officials said, months after the region’s police chief was killed in a similar attack claimed by an affiliate of the ISIL (ISIS) group. On Tuesday, Read More …
At least 5 people have been killed and 11 wounded, including a governor, in a suicide bombing in southwestern Somalia on Tuesday. “A suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a guesthouse in Bardera where government officials were staying,” said Read More …
Al Shabab militants have staged an attack on a military base in a Somalian town recently recaptured from the armed group, killing several soldiers, according to army officials. Somalian army officers said the militants used explosive-laden vehicles to mount an Read More …
At least six soldiers were wounded in an al-Shabaab attack on a military base in southern Somalia, Jubbaland military officials confirmed. Heavily armed al-Shabaab fighters on Saturday stormed a military base in Sakai village in Lower Jubba, prompting hours-long fighting Read More …
A huge blast tore through buildings near the mayor’s office in central Mogadishu on Sunday, with gunfire erupting afterwards in an attack claimed by Al-Shabaab, police and witnesses told AFP. “Terrorists blasted a vehicle loaded with explosives onto a perimeter Read More …
Al-Shabab launched a deadly attack on a Somali military base on Tuesday, just a day after the government claimed a “historic victory” over the jihadists with the capture of a strategic coastal town. The Islamists detonated a car packed with Read More …
A suicide bombing occurred today in the Halgan area of the Hiran region, resulting in the death and injuries of officials and citizens. Eyewitnesses told Shabelle radio by phone that a car filled with explosives went off in Halgan during Read More …
Al-Shabaab militants detonated two car bombs killing at least 35 people and leveling several houses in central Somalia’s Hiraan region on Wednesday, a government-allied militia and a local elder said. The death toll from a twin car bomb attack in Read More …
It was fall 2019, and there was a near certainty that the American-run Baledogle Military Airfield in the middle of Somalia was going to be attacked. The cavalry troops defending it knew the strike would be big — and they Read More …
Twin car bombings rocked Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday causing “scores of casualties”. A vehicle loaded with explosives was driven into the education ministry compound and was followed by gunfire, police officer Ibrahim Mohamed said. “In a few minutes another Read More …
A huge explosion rocked a strategically important bridge linking Russia and the Crimean Peninsula early Saturday, bringing down sections of road and causing fuel tanker wagons to catch fire on a train. A day after President Vladimir Putin celebrated his Read More …
At least 20 people were killed in a triple car bombing attack Monday in central Somalia, among them two local government officials. Witnesses said two vehicles loaded with explosives detonated in the morning, and a third in the afternoon. The Read More …
Car bomb and gun attack targeted a popular hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Friday night, weeks after the government of new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud threatened to launch an all-out offensive against insurgents. Armed men entered Hayat Hotel near Read More …
At least 10 people were killed and more than 20 others injured Friday when al-Shabab extremists attacked a town that sits on the Somali side of the border with Ethiopia, according to witnesses and officials. “The militants launched a surprise Read More …
Gunfire was heard early Friday near a key military base near the Malian capital, according to local journalists and residents, although the cause of the explosions was not immediately clear. A local resident, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, Read More …
At least three people were killed and more than 14 others wounded when a suicide car bomb blast rocked the town of Jowhar on Sunday, officials said. A police officer in Jowhar told Anadolu Agency that it was a suicide Read More …
Turkish security forces defused a bomb planted in a truck in Syria’s northern Jerablus region, bordering Türkiye, the Turkish Interior Ministry said on Saturday. According to the ministry, police received a tip that the truck carrying a bomb was left Read More …
Three policemen were injured when a bomb hidden in a six-wheel garbage truck exploded near a road checkpoint in Panare district on Monday night. The attack occurred about 9.15pm at Chantharak police checkpoint on Highway 42 at Moo 1 village Read More …
An assault on a temple of Afghanistan’s tiny Sikh community has left one worshipper and a Taliban member dead as well as the unidentified attackers. The temple in the capital Kabul was hit by a bomb early in the morning Read More …