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Many Killed in Peshawar Court House Suicide Blast

Getty Images 4 days ago

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN - NOVEMBER 19: Lawyers cover their faces as they walk near the site of a suicide bomb blast on November 19, 2009 in Peshawar, Pakistan. A suicide bomber detonated himself outside of a court building near the Supreme Court complex ...

Pakistan villagers foil attack on mayor

AFP South Asian Edition 8 days ago

Pakistani villagers repelled an attack on an anti-Taliban mayor near Peshawar Sunday, police said, as the death toll from the latest suicide bombing to strike the under-siege city rose to 15. The northwest capital on the fringes of a lawless tribal belt ...

Suicide car bomb 'kills 11' in NW Pakistan

AFP South Asian Edition 9 days ago

A suicide bomber blew up his explosives-filled car Saturday at a police checkpoint in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 11 people, officials said. In the second suicide strike to hit the troubled city in two days, the bomber ...

Suicide bombing near US base in Afghanistan

AFP South Asian Edition 11 days ago

A suicide bomber struck near a US military base in the Afghan capital on Friday, wounding three foreign soldiers less than a week before the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai, officials said. Kabul has been hit by a rising number of suicide ...

Suicide attack wounds foreign troops in Kabul: police

AFP South Asian Edition 11 days ago

A suicide car bomb targeting Western troops near a US-run NATO military base in the Afghan capital Kabul wounded at least three foreign soldiers and three civilians on Friday, police said. The attack came a week ahead of the inauguration of President ...

Suicide bombing near US base in Afghanistan: officials

AFP Global Edition 11 days ago

A suicide bomber struck near a US military base in the Afghan capital on Friday, wounding three foreign soldiers less than a week before the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai, officials said. Kabul has been hit by a rising number of suicide ...

Suicide attack kills two in Afghanistan: officer

AFP South Asian Edition 13 days ago

Two civilians were killed Wednesday when a motorcycle-riding suicide bomber targeted NATO troops in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan army officer said. "There was an explosion and we dragged two civilians' dead bodies from the spot," said Ghulam Jailani Khan, an Afghan army ...

Suicide bomber strikes Pakistan police

AFP Global Edition 15 days ago

A suicide bomber killed three people on Monday in the second attack in Pakistan's city of Peshawar in 24 hours as militants stepped up efforts to avenge a major offensive against the Taliban. Police said the bomber got out of a rickshaw ...

Anti-Taliban mayor among 12 killed in Pakistan

AFP South Asian Edition 15 days ago

A suicide car bomber struck near a busy livestock market in Pakistan's Peshawar city on Sunday, killing 12 people including a former Taliban sympathiser turned anti-militant mayor, police said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which also wounded 36 people on ...

Women fight new battle in Iraq's insurgent corner

Reuters US Online Report World News 15 days ago

LATIFIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - In what was once one of Iraq's deadliest areas, women who survived sectarian carnage and insurgency now fight a new battle to feed families whose menfolk have been killed, jailed or left jobless. Violence has abated in the ...

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