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...

At least 28 Taliban militants were killed following an airstrike in Afghanistan's Faryab province, a military source said on Sunday."Based on a confirmed tip-off, an Afghan Air Force A-29 aircraft targeted a Taliban hideout...

At least six people were killed and several others in a dual blast on Sunday morning in Pakistan's Dera Ismail Khan district.In the first attack, two police were killed and several others injured when some unknown militants sprayed bullets at a police check...

At least 24 Taliban militants were killed and 17 others injured in guided missile strikes in Afghanistan, military said on Saturday."Based on intelligence reports, 24 Taliban militants were killed and 17 others wounded in guided missile strikes in Uruzgan...

A total of 10 Islamic State (IS) militants have been killed in an airstrike by the US-led coalition aircraft in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, the Iraqi military said.Acting on intelligence reports, the coalition aircraft on Friday attacked an IS...

At least nine people were killed and 33 others injured after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car near a gate of Kabul University here on Friday, officials said.The blast occurred around 7.10 a.m. (local time) near the southern gate of the...

At least 33 people were killed and dozens injured after a man set fire to a renowned animation studio in the Japanese city of Kyoto on Thursday, officials said.According to the police, the 41-year-old suspect broke into the Kyoto Animation Co studio in...

One of the most wanted terrorists in India, the mastermind of 26/11 Mumbai attack and several cases of terror crime in the country and Jamat-ud-Dawah (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed was arrested in Pakistan by the counter terrorism unit on Wednesday and sent to...

Papua New Guinea's (PNG) Prime Minister has offered condolences after 16 women and children died in a tribal killing in the country's Hela Province.Prime Minister James Marape took to social media on Tuesday evening to offer his condolences. He wrote: "Today...

At least 12 people were killed and 179 others injured on Sunday in a suicide car bombing in Afghanistan's Ghazni city. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack."The attack took place in the morning at around 8.30 a.m. near a local base of the...

At least 10 militants, including Taliban key commander Mullah Ghousuding, and nine security personnel were killed in a fighting in Afghanistan's Herat province on Saturday, officials said."The Taliban rebels under Mullah Ghousuding attacked security checkpoints...

At least 34 people were killed and 68 injured after a powerful blast claimed by the Taliban rocked the Afghan capital of Kabul in the morning rush hour on Monday, authorities said.The attack comes when a Taliban delegation and US representatives are carrying...

A double suicide bombing in the Tunisian capital on Thursday killed a police officer and injured at least eight others, officials said.The first blast occurred before midday when a suicide bomber hit a police patrol vehicle on the corner of Rue Charles...

Twelve militants and two security personnel were killed after a clash erupted in Tagab district of Afghanistan, an official said on Saturday.A group of Taliban militants, according to provincial police spokesman Abdul Shaqaeq Shurash, launched offensives on...

At least 30 people died and 42 were injured in a triple suicide attack in a restive area of northeastern Nigeria, officials said on Monday.The attacks were carried out on Sunday evening in Mandarari in Borno, which borders Chad, Niger and Cameroon.Three...

At least 10 people were killed and 26 others injured in two car bomb blasts in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police said."Nine people were killed and 25 others sustained injuries after bomb detonated near Sayidka junction," Xinhua quoted Somali Police Commissioner...

Shale producers stand to benefit from the oil-market volatility unleashed by an attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, as US companies vie with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for global market share, the media reported...

At least 12 Sudanese protesters were reportedly killed and dozens injured on Monday after security forces attempted to disperse a sit-in outside the military headquarters in the  African nation's capital Khartoum.Mohamed Babakr of the Central Committee...

Two persons were killed and 24 others injured as serial bomb blasts rocked Kabul on Sunday, an official said.The first explosion occurred at 7.50 a.m. when a bomb attached to a minibus was detonated on a street in western Kabul, a spokesman of the Interior...

At least 12 people were killed and four others injured when a disgruntled employee opened fire in a municipal centre building in the US state of Virginia. The attacker was shot dead after a police confrontation, authorities said.The shooting suspect identified...

At least five people were killed and seven injured on Friday when a car bomb targeting a convoy of foreign troops exploded in Kabul, Afghan officials said.Kabul Police spokesperson Firdaws Faramarz said a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle...

As many as six people were killed and 16 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military training centre here on Thursday, officials said.The Islamic State (IS) terror group claimed responsibility for the attack. The suicide attacker...

One female student and a man were killed and 16 others injured after a man wielding knives attacked a group of schoolchildren outside a bus stop in the Japanese city of Kawasaki on Tuesday, the police said, adding the attacker stabbed himself after the rampage...

At least 22 militants, including two Taliban commanders, and three police officers were killed in separate clashes in Afghanistan, authorities said on Sunday.Fifteen militants, including the two commanders, were killed as security forces targeted Taliban...

At least four people were killed and 12 others injured in a car bomb attack in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, the police said.A police officer told Xinhua news agency that the car filled with explosives went off as the officials were checking...

At least six people were killed and 200 others injured during protests in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta against the re-election of President Joko Widodo for a second five-year term, authorities confirmed on Wednesday.The police confirmed the death toll...

At least 510 people have been killed and 2,467 injured in the military escalation in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, which began last month, the United Nations World Health Organization said."The toll from the armed conflict in Tripoli, Libya continues to...

Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad activists allegedly hurled stones at BJP President Amit Shah's roadshow here on Tuesday, triggering clashes in which three motorbikes were set ablaze in the College Street area and many sustained injuries.Shah later accused...

The death toll of a Taliban attack targeting an international aid group in the Afghan capital jumped to 14 on Thursday, with the militant group warning it would conduct more such strikes to avenge the civilian casualties of counter-insurgency military operations...

At least 10 people were killed and 30 wounded when a 15-year-old suicide bomber detonated himself near a police patrol close to Pakistan's oldest and most popular Sufi shrine in Lahore city on Wednesday.Five police officers were among those killed in the...

At least five people, including three police officials and two civilians, were killed and 24 others injured in an explosion near Data Darbar here in Pakistan on Wednesday, DIG Operations Lahore Ashfaq Ahmed Khan confirmed.According to initial police reports,...

At least 52 Taliban militants, including two key comanders, were killed by the Afghan Army in Ghazni province, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday."Up to 52 Taliban terrorists  were killed following three separate Afghan National Army commando operations...

Zahran Hashim, a radical Tamil-speaking cleric who is believed to have masterminded the Sri Lanka blasts which left over 350 people dead and around 500 injured on Easter Sunday, was in "direct and regular" touch with some Islamic State sympathizers in Southern...

At least 290 people were killed and approximet 400  injured when eight suicide bombings, mainly in Colombo, ravaged Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday in the island's bloodiest day since the civil war ended a decade ago. Four Indians, two of them women. were...

At least 185 people were killed and more than 400 injured when suicide bombers exploded themselves in three luxury hotels and three churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday in the island's bloodiest day since the civil war ended a decade ago.The mayhem began...

At least 16 people were killed and over two dozen others injured in a blast that targeted members of the ethnic Hazara community in Pakistan's Quetta city on Friday, police said.Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Abdul Razzaq Cheema confirmed the toll and told...

At least four Haqqani militants were killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan's Paktia province on Friday, officials said."Based on a confirmed tip-off, the airstrike was launched on outskirts of provincial capital Gardez on Friday morning. The sortie killed...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said 49 people have died in the Christchurch shootings.Ten were killed at Linwood and 39 at the Deans Ave mosque near Hagley Park. A further 27 people were injured.Ardern said it was an "unprecedented" situation...

At least 30 people have been killed after unidentified gunmen opened fire on the people at a village in Nigeria, the police said.Mohammed Shehu, a police spokesman said the  incident took place on Tuesday in the Kware village of Shinkafi district.The...

Three people, including a woman and her two daughters were killed when a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a house north of Yemen's capital Sanaa, a relative and local health authorities said.The father was injured in the airstrike on Bait al-Tawki's house,...

At least five people were killed and hundreds injured as violence broke out along the Venezuela-Colombia border, where international aid intended for Caracas is awaiting transport.The violence broke out on Saturday night as opposition leader and self-proclaimed...

At least 66 people were killed on Friday by unidentified gunmen in Nigeria's Kaduna state, on the eve of the country's presidential election, officials said.State government spokesman Samuel Aruwan said in a statement that eight settlements were attacked,...

At least 21 people were killed in a car bomb attack at a police academy in the Colombian capital of Bogota, authorities said.An SUV laden with explosives was blown up on Thursday in the General Francisco de Paula Santander Officer's School, reports Efe...

Kenya's government on Tuesday said the situation was under control after six people were killed and some 30 others wounded in a terrorist attack at an upscale hotel and office complex in this capital."I can now report we have secured all the buildings," Interior...

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on Thursday said it has seized 43 kg of heroin.During the operation, FSB officers detained active members of a cross-border criminal group while they were transferring drugs in a forest here, Xinhua news agency...

At least 21 Afghan soldiers, police personnel and 15 Taliban militants have been killed in clashes in Badghis province as fighting rages in the country, officials said on Monday.In one incident, three Army soldiers, 11 Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel...

An explosion on Friday targeting a bus carrying Vietnamese tourists on an excursion to the Giza pyramids left four people dead and 10 others wounded, Egyptian authorities said.Three of the tourists were killed along with the tour guide, an Egyptian citizen,...

 The death toll of a terrorist attack on a government office here in Afghanistan rose to 43 as many injured succumbed to their injuries, an Afghan Public Health Ministry official said on Tuesday.Earlier reports had put the casualty at 28 civilians, one police...

At least four members of the Afghan security forces and two civilians were killed on Tuesday in a suicide car bombing by Taliban targeting a military convoy in a district of Kabul province.The attack took place in the morning when a suicide bomber detonated...

The US military has said its special forces conducted an airstrike in Somalia on Saturday, killing four al-Shabab militants.The US Africa Command (Africom) said the collective self-defence airstrike which was carried in cooperation with the Somali government...