At least 76 dead, 70 injured in Mogadishu checkpoint blast

By Agencies,

At least 76 people were killed and 70 more injured after a massive car bomb exploded at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu....

Abdirizak Mohamed , Benadir University , mogadishu

63 killed, hundreds injured at Afghan wedding suicide blast

By Reuters,

A suicide bomber killed 63 people and wounded 182 in an attack on a packed wedding reception in the Afghan capital, the interior ministry said on Sund...

Afghan , Taliban , United States

Car bomb explodes in Libya’s Benghazi, killing 3 UN staff

By Reuters,

A car bomb explosion in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi killed three U.N. staff members and two other mission members on Saturday, the United Nati...

Libyan National Army (LNA) , United Nations

Survivors of the August 7 bomb blast mark 21-year anniversary

By Citizen Reporter,

Survivors and families of those who perished in the August 7, 1998 bomb blast are on Wednesday set to convene at the Memorial Park in Nairobi. Twen...

bomb blast

Three bombs kill 15 in Afghan capital as U.S. general visits

By Reuters,

Three bombs rocked the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, officials said, as the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of St...

Afghan capital , three bombs , U.S

Mayor of Mogadishu, others hurt in Somalia suicide blast

By Reuters,

A suicide bomb attack on local government headquarters injured the mayor of Mogadishu and several other officials on Wednesday, a relative of one of t...

mogadishu , somalia , Suicide blast , Terrorrism

At least 17 killed in bomb attack in Somalia capital

By Reuters,

At least 17 people were killed and 28 others wounded when a bomb went off outside a hotel near the international airport in Somalia’s capital Mogadi...

Al Shabaab , somalia

Car bomb kills 11, injures many others in Syria

By Reuters,

A car bomb killed 11 people and wounded many others on Thursday in Syria’s Afrin city, which Turkey-backed rebels captured from Kurdish fighters las...

blast , car bomb , deaths , Syria's Afrin

Taliban car bomb kills at least 12 in attack on Afghan security compound

By Reuters,

Taliban Islamist fighters killed at least eight Afghan security force members and four civilians, as well as wounding more than 50 civilians, by blowi...

Afghan Security Force , National Directorate of Security (NDS) , Taliban

Gun battle ends in Afghan capital after Taliban blast wounds 105

By Reuters,

Afghan security forces killed five Taliban gunmen who stormed a building in Kabul on Monday after detonating a bomb-laden truck that wounded at least ...

Afghan forces , Mike Pompeo , Taliban , Zabihullah Mujahid

Al Shabaab kill 16 in Kenya and Somalia blasts

By Reuters,

Somali militants killed eight Kenyan police with a roadside bomb near the border between the two countries on Saturday, officials said, while another ...

Al Shabaab , Bomb , charles owino , U.N

Blasts kill soldiers, Shi’ite Muslims in Pakistan

By VOA,

Authorities in Pakistan say a roadside bombing Friday near the Afghan border killed at least four soldiers and injured four others, while two separate...

Afghan war , Pakistan - Afghan border

Somali officer remembered as mother, military hero

By VOA,

Col. Faadumo Ali spent her life trying to bring peace and security back to her home country of Somalia. The 33-year-old mother of 10 joined the mil...

Lyon’s explosion prompts a possible terrorism investigation

By CNN,

An explosion on Friday that injured 13 people in Lyon, France has prompted a national investigation into possible terrorism. The blast occurred in ...

attack , Bomb , Explosion , France , investigations , Lyon , terror , terrorism , wounded

Former Somali minister Fahiye killed in suicide car bombing

By VOA,

Police in Somalia say former foreign minister Hussein Elabe Fahiye was among five people killed when a car bomb exploded Wednesday. The explosion o...

Al Shabaab , Hussein Ceelaabe Fahiya , somalia

Al Shabaab changes tactics, uses home-made explosives

By Reuters,

A United Nations report on Saturday, 18 has revealed that Somali Islamist insurgents are making their own explosives to mount more frequent and deadly...

Al Shabaab , Attacks , bombings. u.n , explosives tactics , home-made , Somali

Blast near shrine in Pakistan, several dead: police

By Reuters,

A bomb targeting police outside a major Sufi shrine in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday killed several people and wounded dozens, off...

‘Save us from the Satans’: Survivors of Sri Lanka church attack pray

By Reuters,

A dozen rifle-toting soldiers guarded a small community hall as day broke in the eastern Sri Lankan town of Batticaloa on Sunday morning. Around 9 ...

Islamic state , President Maithripala Sirisena , Sri Lanka , SUICIDE BOMBERS

Taliban suicide bomber leads attack on an Afghan police HQ, 20 injured

By Reuters,

At least 20 people were injured after a Taliban suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed Humvee and blew himself up at the police headquarters in the...

Afghan , suicide bomber , Taliban , Zabihullah Mujahid

U.S. envoy to Sri Lanka says threat is real; security forces maintain high alert

By Reuters,

The U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka said on Tuesday that some of the Islamist militants behind Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people we...