Taliban claims massive VBIED explosion close to Green Village in Kabul city

The Taliban group claimed responsibility for a massive Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) explosion in Kabul city earlier tonight. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement that one of the suicide bombers of the group detonated the VBIED close Read More …

2 policemen injured in ISIS attack targeting Bangladesh Minister in Dhaka

The bomb was thrown from the footbridge at the Science Lab intersection on Saturday night when the Minister was passing through the area, reports said. Two policemen were injured in a blast near the car of a Bangladeshi Minister in Read More …

Taliban bomb kills 8 civilians including women and children in Balkh

A roadside bomb explosion killed 8 civilians including women and children in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan. The 209th Shaheen Corps said in a statement that the explosion took place in Chimtal district on Saturday. Blaming Taliban for the incident, Read More …

Afghan forces claim upper hand after Taliban attack Kunduz city

Afghan security forces “repelled” a coordinated Taliban assault on the northern city of Kunduz on Saturday, President Ashraf Ghani said, even as the insurgents claimed to have captured important city buildings. The multi-pronged Taliban offensive on Kunduz, which has come Read More …

IED explodes outside the Pakistan Consulate General in Jalalabad

An improvised explosive device (IED) exploded outside the Pakistan Consulate General in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, Foreign Office Spokesman Dr Mohammad Faisal said on Sunday. All Pakistani staffers at the consulate are safe. According to a tweet, Dr Read More …

Army disarms IED on West Bank highway days after deadly terror bombing

Israeli security forces on Monday found and disarmed a small improvised explosive device that had been planted along a northern West Bank highway, the army said. The foiled roadside bombing came days after an IED that had been planted next Read More …

U.S. military confirms attack on a convoy near Bagram Airfield, no casualties reported

The U.S. military confirmed an attack on a military convoy near Bagram Airfield in northern Parwan province of Afghanistan. According to a statement released by U.S. military “There was an attack on a convoy last night near Bagram Airfield in Read More …

IS makes comeback in Syria through sleeper cells

On Aug. 20, unidentified gunmen blew up Al-Salam hospital in Sheikh Hamad village, south of the town of Marqada, which is controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the countryside of Hasakah in northeastern Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Read More …

Philippines: Central Mindanao troops on high alert

Security forces in Central Mindanao are on heightened alert following a bomb explosion Monday in Datu Anggal Midtimbang town, Maguindanao, and a foiled bomb plot in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat. Lt. Col. Manuel Alburo, the Army’s 6th Infantry Division spokesperson, said Read More …

Fermanagh bomb attack ‘deliberate attempt’ to murder police, says PSNI

  The PSNI believes officers were lured to the site of the suspected dissident bomb attack in Co Fermanagh in attempt to kill and injure them. PSNI deputy chief constable Stephen Martin told a press conference in Belfast: “The threat Read More …

Yemen rebel drone attack targets remote Saudi oil field

Saudi Arabia describes the damage as a “limited fire” in the second such recent attack on its crucial energy industry. Houthi spokesman says rebels launched 10 bomb-laden drones targeting the field in their “biggest-ever” operation; threatens more attacks coming. Drones Read More …

Pakistan: At least 3 killed in roadside IED blast in Upper Dir: police

At least three people were killed after a bomb went off in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Upper Dir district on Sunday. The blast, which occurred in the Gumadand area of the Sheringal tehsil, left at least a dozen people injured, said police. Read More …

PKK roadside bomb kills 1 in southeast Turkey’s Hakkari

At least one civilian was killed Sunday in a roadside bomb explosion in Turkey’s southeastern Hakkari province, authorities said. In a statement, the provincial governor’s office said a vehicle was passing through the Çatalca neighborhood in Semdinli district when the Read More …

Roadside blast kills 12 civilians in Afghanistan

A roadside bomb explosion claimed lives of at least 12 civilians in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, an official said. Mohammad Yosuf, governor of Dawlat Abad district in Balkh province, said a mini-bus carrying civilians hit the roadside improvised explosive device Read More …