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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed on Sunday in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan, ending a years-long hunt for the mastermind behind the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.President Barack Obama announced the news ...
A double suicide bomb attack outside a shrine in the central Pakistani province of Punjab on Sunday killed 41 people, a police officer told AFP from the scene of the blasts.The bombers struck outside the shrine of the 13th century Sufi saint ...
A suicide bomber targeting members of an anti-Taliban militia at a funeral in northwestern Pakistan killed 37 people and wounded at least 45 others on Wednesday, police said.Police and witnesses said the bomber had slipped into the congregation of more than 200 ...
A car bomb planted by suspected Islamic militants exploded at a filling station in Pakistan's Punjab province Tuesday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 154 others, officials said.Many of those hurt were trapped for hours by debris and shrapnel after the ...
A bomb attack on a packed mosque in militant-infested northwest Pakistan killed at least 11 people and wounded over 20 others after it ripped through Friday prayers, police and medics said.Hundreds of people were coming out of the mosque or waiting for ...
Pakistani security forces on Saturday captured a would-be suicide bomber and five handlers while another blew himself up in a restive northwestern town, the military said."One suicide bomber blew himself up when encircled by security forces while another was arrested before he ...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A suicide bombing at an army recruitment center in northwest Pakistan on Thursday killed at least 10 people, said a police official.Residents said the bomber struck while recruits were conducting morning training in the town of Mardan.(Reporting by Zeeshan ...
A timed bomb blast in a minibus that killed 18 people in Pakistan's northwest on Monday targeted a Shiite Muslim leader accused of sectarian killings in the area, police told AFP.The deadly blast in Jawarza, near the restive town of Hangu, killed ...
A roadside bomb targeting police in northwest Pakistan killed one officer and wounded five others Thursday, close to the scene of a deadly suicide attack on security forces a day earlier.The officers were hit in their car while on patrol in the ...
A roadside bomb targeting police in northwest Pakistan killed one officer and wounded five others Thursday, close to the scene of a deadly suicide attack on security forces a day earlier.The officers were hit in their car while on patrol in the ...
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