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30 dead in separate suicide attack, drone strike in Yemen
A suicide attack at a town in south Yemen recently recaptured by the army from Al-Qaeda forces killed 20 people Saturday and wounded another 20, the governor of the province said. In a separate incident in the east of the country meanwhile, a suspected US drone strike killed five Al-Qaeda members late Saturday, a…
Afghan wedding suicide attack kills MP, 16 others
A suicide bomber killed a prominent Afghan lawmaker and 16 other people at his daughter’s wedding party in the north of the country on Saturday, officials said. The attacker embraced MP Ahmad Khan, a former militia commander, in front of wedding guests before detonating the explosives strapped around his waist,…
11 Afghans killed in suicide attack targeting NATO
The death toll from a suicide bomb attack on a joint Afghan-NATO patrol in the eastern town of Khost on Wednesday has risen to 11, a senior hospital official said. Amir Padsha, the director of Khost city hospital said the dead included three police officers and eight civilians.…
Pakistan suicide attack kills seven: official
A suicide attack ripped through a Pakistani market on Friday, killing at least seven people and wounding 45 others near a mosque in the country’s tribal badlands, officials said. The bomb exploded near a Sunni Muslim mosque as the main Friday prayers were taking place in Parachinar, in the past…
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