30 May 2013

Afghan intelligence agents captured six militants with suicide vests and heavy weaponry who were planning a major attack in Kabul, an official said on Thursday. A seventh alleged plotter was...

8:26PM
25 May 2013

Explosions and gunfire rocked central Kabul on Friday as the Taliban launched a major attack close to an Afghan intelligence facility and the headquarters of a government force that protects...

2:01AM
24 May 2013

Islamist suicide bombers struck an army barracks and a French-run uranium mine in Niger on Thursday, officials said, killing 20 people and wounding dozens more in attacks that showed militant...

4:23AM
3 Apr 2013

Taliban militants stormed an Afghan court on Wednesday, killing at least 44 people in a bid to free insurgents standing trial, officials said, in the deadliest attack for more than a year.

4:48AM
14 Mar 2013

A suicide bomber blew himself up during a traditional Afghan game of buzkashi, a game of horse polo played with a dead goat, killing at least 10 spectators in the northern province of Kunduz on...

2:02AM
27 Feb 2013

A suicide attacker blew himself up next to a bus carrying army personnel in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, wounding at least six people, officials said.

1:19PM

The men were key figures in a Birmingham-based terror cell that planned to detonate eight to 10 suicide bombs and timed explosive devices, which prosecutors said could have caused "death and...

4:48AM

A funeral is to be held on Wednesday for an Iraqi Sunni MP killed by a suicide bomber who wrapped his arms around the lawmaker before blowing himself up, as a political crisis engulfed Iraq.

11:49AM

Venezuela's Chavez recovers after surgery

5:58AM

Syrian rebels launched a devastating car bomb attack Monday that killed 50 pro-regime fighters, a watchdog said, as air strikes pounded rebel positions and the opposition held talks on an overhaul...

12:30PM

A suicide car bomber on Tuesday killed 12 people, nine of them foreigners, officials said, in an early-morning attack claimed by a militant group which said it struck to avenge an anti-Islam film...

6:07PM

Internet users and local residents are demanding the truth as conflicting accounts emerge about the identity of a suicide bomber in Yunnan's Qiaojia county, who set off an explosion on Thursday...

2:44PM

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