Topic: Suicide Attacks

Baghdad blasts target Shi'ites, kill 63

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A wave of bombings killed at least 63 people in Baghdad on Thursday, the first attacks since Iraq's Shi'ite-led government was engulfed in a crisis that risks fracturing the country along sectarian and ethnic faultlines.The bombings, just days after ...

Baghdad blasts kill 63 as Iraq tensions rise

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of bombings hit Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 63 people in the first big assault attack on Iraq's capital since a sectarian crisis erupted within its government just days after the U.S. troop withdrawal.The apparently coordinated ...

Baghdad blasts kill 57 as Iraq tensions rise

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A rash of bombings hit Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 57 people in the first big attack on Iraq's capital since a crisis between its Shi'ite Muslim-led government and Sunni rivals erupted days after the U.S. troop withdrawal.The ...

Baghdad blasts kill 40 as tensions rise

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of blasts and a suicide bomber hit mainly Shi'ite areas in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 40 people in the first major attack on Iraq's capital since a crisis erupted between its Shi'ite-led government and Sunni ...

Baghdad blasts kill 17 as tensions rise

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of blasts hit mainly Shi'ite areas in Baghdad Thursday, killing at least 17 people in the first wave of attacks on Iraq's capital since a crisis erupted between its Shi'ite-led government and Sunni rivals after the U.S. ...

Five Polish soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Taliban bombers killed five Polish soldiers in an attack on their convoy in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the deadliest single loss for Warsaw's NATO contingent in the 10-year war."This is the most deadly attack in the history of Polish military missions abroad," Poland's ...
A shootout between Nigerian police and suspected members of the Islamist group Boko Haram has left seven dead, while 14 people have been arrested and explosives seized, authorities said Sunday.The shootout on Saturday in Kano came after a suspected Boko Haram leader ...

Kabul police station attacked: officials

A police station in the Afghan capital came under militant attack Friday, with at least one explosion and several bursts of gunfire heard, officials said.A man lobbed grenades at the fifth district police station in west Kabul before fleeing but the situation ...

Kabul police station attack ends, no casualties

KABUL (Reuters) - An attack on a police station in the west of Kabul on Friday ended without casualties, police and the Interior Ministry said.An attacker threw a hand grenade at the station, ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said on his official Twitter ...

Suicide bombers attack west Kabul police station

KABUL (Reuters) - Several suicide bombers attacked a police station in the west of the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, a police source said."At least four suicide bombers carried out an attack on a police station," the source said, adding that one ...
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