At least 28 people were killed and 66 others wounded in a bomb explosion in a marketplace in eastern Baghdad on Monday, a source with the Iraqi interior ministry said.A bomb detonated at a crowded popular market in Sadr City, a suburb district of the capital...

At least 56 Taliban militants were killed, 10 others wounded and 23 captured in Afghanistan's northern region, as security forces continued fighting to prevent the the group from advancing, the military said on Saturday.Forty-five militants were killed...

Somali National Army (SNA) said that 41 al-Shabab militants were killed and several others injured in a suicide attack in the country's Galmudug state.An SNA commander told state-media that three SNA soldiers and five from Galmudug's regional paramilitary forces...

At least 46 Taliban militants were killed and 25 others injured in fierce clasheswith security forces in Afghanistan's Takhar province, the Ministry of Defence said.The clashes occurred on Saturday when the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)...

Five members of the Iraqi federal police were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in the northern province of Kirkuk, a source said.The incident took place on Friday, when a roadside bomb exploded near a federal police vehicle outside the town of Daquq, some...

Seven civilians were killed and six others injured in two explosions targeting public mini-buses along a busy road in Kabul, police in the Afghan capital confirmed. The explosions occurred in Sari Pul and Mahtab Qala localities in Dashti Barchi, in Police...

At least ten people were killed in an attack on deminers in the northern province of Baghlan, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.At least 14 more were injured when a camp of deminers was attacked on Tuesday night in the province's Baghlan-e...

At least 88 people were killed and several others injured following attacks by bandits in Nigeria's northwestern state of Kebbi, police confirmed. The bandits launched attacks on eight different communities in the Danko-Wasagu local government area of the...

At least six civilians were killed and seven others wounded in a bomb attack targeting a bus in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan Tuesday evening, the latest in a string of bomb blasts in the city, an Interior Ministry official confirmed."The initial information...

The United Nations' casualty count from hostilities in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel on Wednesday showed 256 people dead - including 69 children and an Israeli soldier - and thousands of people injured.The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian...

At least nine people were killed and five others seriously injured in a shootout between two rival groups in Pakistan's Sindh province, local media reported on Sunday.According to the reports, the exchange of intensive firing took place late Saturday between...

At least 11 people were killed and 32 others injured on Tuesday in a shooting incident at a school in the Russian city of Kazan, authorities said, adding that a suspect has been arrested.The incident took place at the school No. 175 in Kazan located in...

At least 44 people were killed in "bloody" battles between the Yemeni government forces and the Houthi rebels in the oil-rich province of Marib, an official has confirmed."Houthi fighters carried out large-scale military operations from different directions...

At least 25 people were killed after an explosion near a school in the western part of Kabul, Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said on Saturday.As many as 52 injured were taken to different hospitals following the blast, according to the Interior Ministry's...

The miscreants on Wednesday blazed nine buses parked at the Bandura Bazar bus counter in Dhaka's Nawabganj and set afire five shops. However, no casualties were reported immediately.The incident took place around 11 a.m.The fire has been distinguished and...

At least eight members of a family were killed after unknown gunmen opened fire on them at a mosque in Afghanistans Nangarhar province, officials said on Sunday.Provincial governor Ziaulhaq Amarkhail said the incident happened in police district nine of...

Eighteen people were killed and 21 others injured when members of the Boko Haram terror group attacked Nigeria's northeastern town of Damasak earlier this week, wreaking havoc in the area, a top official said.Babagana Umara Zulum, governor of the restive state...

At least 23 people were killed on Saturday Islamist attacks on two military bases in Somalia.Two suicide car bombers struck two army positions in the district of Awdhegle and Bariire village in the volatile Lower Shabelle province, dpa news agency reported."Al-Shabaab...

The Baitul Mukarram National Mosque area in Dhaka turned into a battleground on Friday as violent clashes erupted between the police and the supporters of a radical Islamist group protesting against the ongoing visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Modi...

Violent clashes broke out between the police and the supporters of radical Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam in Dhaka and Chittagong after the cops thwarted an attempt to launch an anti-Modi protest in front of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in the Bangladesh...

At least 36 people were killed in clashes in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, according to a local war monitoring group."Within the past 24 hours, our team has documented 36 deaths, including one Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) member,...

As many as 18 people were killed and three others were injured after two landmines exploded in Syria's central Hama province, state news agency SANA reported.The landmines ripped through two vehicles in the Salamiyah area on Sunday, Xinhua news agency quoted...

Five people were killed and five others injured in the latest targeted attack in Afghanistan, according to an independent war monitoring group.In Herat province, Jowzi Alizai, a tribal elder and his son and nephew were killed by gunmen in Ghoryan district,...

At least 20 people were killed and five injured when a microbus and a truck collided on Egypt's El-Kureimat highway in Giza province.The accident took place on Saturday after the truck's tire exploded, leading it to crash into the microbus that was travelling...

At least five people were killed and five others injured in a landmine blast in Pakistan's Balochistan province, it was reported on Saturday.The blast took place in Sibi district on Friday night, Xinhua news agency quoted local media reports as saying.Deputy...

At least five people were killed and several others injured in a suicide car bombing outside a hotel frequented by government officials in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu, police said.The attack started at 5 p.m. on Sunday when a car packed with explosives...

Eight Afghan soldiers were killed as a car bomb went off next to a military base in Nangarhar province on Saturday, according to authorities."The terrorists detonated an explosive-laden military vehicle in Gandumak area of Shirzad district today morning killing...

At least 15 people were killed and five others injured in a fire at a private nursing home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, authorities said.According to the press service of Ukrainian State Service for Emergencies, the fire broke out at 3.03 p.m. on Thursday and quickly...

At least 21 people were killed and 53 others injured on Thursday in twin suicide bombings at a crowded market area in Baghdad, according to Iraqi officials.A suicide bomber blew up his explosive belt in a crowded market in Bab al-Sharji area, and a second...

Four Pakistani soldiers were killed and five others injured in an IED blast in Balochistan province, intelligence sources said on Thursday.The incident took place in Sibi district on Wednesday afternoon.After the explosion, Frontier Corps personnel cleared...

At least 83 people were killed and 160 others injured in an attack that took place at El Geneina, capital city of Sudan's West Darfur state, according to authorities."The death toll from the bloody events in El Geneina has climbed to 83 and the injured...

At least 22 people were killed after three massive explosions struck the Aden airport in Yemen just minutes after the arrival of members of a new power-sharing government from Saudi Arabia, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.According to a statement...

The US' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is reminding the public of a $100,000-reward offer for information leading to the capture of Indian-origin Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel, who has been listed by the agency as one of the "10 Most Wanted" since...

At least six people were killed and more than 25 injured after 14 rockets hit different parts of Kabul following two IED explosions in the Afghan capital, officials said. Of the five victims, four were killed in the rockets attacks and one in of the two...

Revealing a rift in the Hefazat-e-Islam, which terms itself as Bangladesh's largest "non-political" Islamist group, its Joint Secretary General, Mainuddin Ruhi, on Saturday said that an "illegal" council meeting has been convened to implement the agenda of the...

Government has declared 18 more individuals as terrorists under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 including Hizbul Mujhadeen chief Syed Salahuddin involved in the  Mumbai terror attack as well as the IC 814 hijacking.The MHA in a statement said...

At least eight people were killed and 125 others injured after an improvised explosive device (IED) went off inside a madrasa in Peshawar, according to authorities.The incident  took place inside the Jamia Zuberia madrasa located in the city's Dir...

Eight soldiers and seven civil security personnel were killed in a terrorist attack in Pakistan's Balochistan province, police sources said.The incident took place on Thursday in Ormara area, when a group of militants ambushed and attacked a convoy of the...

At least 10 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and three civilians were killed in a roadside blast in Afghanistan's Sar-e-Pul province, a security source said on Sunday.According to the source, three others were wounded in the blast on Saturday, reports...

At least 17 people were killed and 30 others injured when a tour bus collided with a cargo train in Thailand on Sunday, a government official said.The accident took place when the bus, carrying 65 passengers, was crossing a rail track in Bang Toey area...

At least seven people were killed in violent protests against police brutality in Colombia's capital Bogota, the police said.The protests were triggered after the death of a man at the hands of police on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency.Lawyer Javier Ordonez,...

At least 28 people were killed as fighting intensified between Yemen's government forces and the Houthi group in the country's al-Jawf province, a military official said on Monday.The official told Xinhua news agency that "armed confrontations that began...

Three Katyusha rockets landed in Baghdad Airport, damaging four vehicles, the Iraqi military said.The attack took place in the evening when the rockets were fired from Abu Gharib area, west of Baghdad's city center, and landed in the airport, the media office...

Twenty four people have now died and around 50 are injured after six air conditioners exploded during prayers in a mosque in Bangladesh's Fatullah town.So far, a total of 24 people, including a child, have died from burn injuries sustained in the blasts which...

An Anti-terror court (ATC) on Friday convicted three top leaders of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) in various cases of terror financing.As per the verdict of the ATC court, Malik Zafar Iqbal, Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki and Hafiz Abdul Salam were found guilty of using...

At least 10 were killed, including a suicide bomber, and 40 others injured in twin blasts in the Philippines' Sulu province on Monday, the army said.Western Mindanao Command chief Lieutenant General Corleto Vinluan said the victims also comprised five soldiers...

A roadside bomb exploded near a convoy of trucks carrying equipment belonging to US troops in Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.The blast took place on Saturday when the convoy was moving on a highway near al-Ghazaliyah neighbourhood in...

Fourteen rockets hit a diplomatic district and other neighbourhoods of Kabul on Tuesday injuring a total of 10 people, as Afghanistan marked its 101st Independence Day, a spokesman of the Interior Ministry confirmed."At 9.36 a.m. 14 rounds of rockets were fired...

At least 21 Taliban militants were killed and seven others injured in clashes that erupted in two Afghan provinces, army authorities said on Sunday.In Badghis province, 12 militants were killed and one injured after an airstrike was launched in support...

Afghan security forces killed 31 Taliban militants and injured 15 others in Nangarhar province, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday."The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) were aware of an imminent attack on checkpoints in Qelgho area of...

Two Afghan soldiers and five Taliban militants were killed, while 11 people from the two sides were wounded during pre-dawn clashes in northern Kunduz province, a local official said on Wednesday."The clashes erupted after Taliban militants stormed joint...

At least 34 people were killed and 17 others wounded when a passenger bus hit a mine placed on a national highway in Afghanistan's Farah province on Wednesday, officials said.The explosion occurred around 6 a.m. when the bus packed with passengers detonated...

Five people were killed and 35 others injured in a bombing outside a police station in Pakistan's Quetta city, authorities have said.The attack on Tuesday was carried out using a motorcycle rigged with explosives and detonated by remote control, police spokesman...

At least 57 inmates were killed Monday during a clash between rival factions inside a prison in the northern Brazilian state of Para, authorities said.The disturbance at the prison in Altamira, 850km (528mi) from Belem, the state capital, lasted for more...

At least 10 soldiers have been killed in two attacks in Pakistan, the country's Army said on Saturday.Four soldiers were killed in the turbulent province of Balochistan while another six died in a second onslaught in the tribal region of North Waziristan."Terrorists...

Three members of a family were found hanging inside the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi premises, the police said on Saturday.Bodies of Gulshan Das, a senior lab assistant in the Department of Bio-Chemistry at IIT, his wife Sunita and his mother Kamta...

At least 10 people, including three children, died in bombings by the Syrian Army on Saturday after a bloody week that has seen 100 civilians killed, a UK-based war monitor has said.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that Damascus planes...

At least four members of the Afghan Security Forces were killed and 20 others wounded in a car bomb explosion in Ghazni province on Saturday morning, reported Tolo news.The blast occurred in Ab Band district of Ghazni at around 4.30 a.m. on Saturday when...

At least five people were killed and 16 others injured as three blasts rocked Afghanistan's Kabul on Thursday morning, officials said.According to Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi, the first blast at 8.10 a.m. in Police District 16 targeted a mini-bus...

Two men were killed and at least 22 others injured in more than a dozen shootings across the city of Chicago from Friday to Saturday, media reported.The city's first fatal shooting of the weekend took place at the 200 block of West 105th Place on Friday...