Taliban leaders have claimed responsibility for a wave of suicide bombings that have battered the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The militants also vow to carry out more attacks in the future.
A suicide car bomber struck a congested traffic circle outside Peshawar Tuesday, killing at least 26 people -- including several women and children -- and wounding 60 others, police and hospital officials said.
A suicide bomber detonated explosives at a police checkpoint in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, killing at least three people, police said.
A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people Monday by detonating explosives outside a bank where people had lined up to pick up their monthly checks, police said.
A suicide car bomb in a bustling market in the Pakistani city of Peshawar killed at least 49 people Friday, a government official said.
A suicide attacker blew himself up at an army checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, killing two security forces and wounding four people, a military source said.
At least 18 officers were killed Sunday in a suicide attack at a police training center in Mingora in Pakistan's northwest, officials said.
At least 21 people were killed and 27 wounded in a suicide bombing Thursday in Pakistan, near its border with Afghanistan, officials told CNN.
Four policemen were killed by a suicide bomber Tuesday in southern Chechnya, the office of the Chechen president said.
Authorities investigating the twin hotel bombings in Jakarta have found the remains of another person and think a notorious Malaysian-born militant fugitive may be behind the assault, police said Saturday.
Taliban leaders have claimed responsibility for a wave of suicide bombings that have battered the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The militants also vow to carry out more attacks in the future.
A suicide car bomber struck a congested traffic circle outside Peshawar Tuesday, killing at least 26 people -- including several women and children -- and wounding 60 others, police and hospital officials said.
A suicide bomber detonated explosives at a police checkpoint in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, killing at least three people, police said.
A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people Monday by detonating explosives outside a bank where people had lined up to pick up their monthly checks, police said.
A suicide car bomb in a bustling market in the Pakistani city of Peshawar killed at least 49 people Friday, a government official said.
A suicide attacker blew himself up at an army checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, killing two security forces and wounding four people, a military source said.
At least 18 officers were killed Sunday in a suicide attack at a police training center in Mingora in Pakistan's northwest, officials said.
At least 21 people were killed and 27 wounded in a suicide bombing Thursday in Pakistan, near its border with Afghanistan, officials told CNN.
Four policemen were killed by a suicide bomber Tuesday in southern Chechnya, the office of the Chechen president said.
Authorities investigating the twin hotel bombings in Jakarta have found the remains of another person and think a notorious Malaysian-born militant fugitive may be behind the assault, police said Saturday.
At least seven Taliban insurgents wearing suicide vests and wielding machine guns struck at government targets Saturday in the eastern city of Khost, authorities in Afghanistan said.
Seven suicide bombers dressed as women targeted Afghan police officers about 60 miles from the capital on Tuesday, a police commander said.
A top Taliban leader in Pakistan is buying and selling children for suicide bombings, Pakistani and U.S. officials said.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up near a gas station in southern Afghanistan, killing 17 people and injuring 20 more, an official said Saturday.
A moderate Muslim cleric who denounced suicide attacks as forbidden by Islam was killed Friday in a suicide attack on his mosque in Lahore, authorities said.
A car bomber targeted a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan, killing seven people Wednesday, a day after Taliban militants attacked many locations in the city of Khost, U.S. military officials said.
A Taliban suicide bomb squad disguised as regular Afghan army troops stormed a strategic city close to the border with Pakistan Tuesday, prompting a fierce six-hour battle with U.S. troops, local officials and the U.S. military said.
Zabiullah Mujahid, one of two spokesmen for Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, spoke recently with CNN's Nic Robertson about the war in Afghanistan and the Taliban's relationship with al Qaeda.
Suicide bombers killed 60 people near a holy Shiite shrine in Baghdad on Friday and a car bomber left seven people dead in Diyala, according to security and medical officials.
Five U.S. soldiers were killed Friday in a suicide bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul -- the single deadliest attack on U.S. troops in more than a year, the U.S. military said.
A police officer was killed Monday in a suicide bombing at the gate of a police station in Islamabad, authorities said.
Eight Taliban suicide attackers struck Afghan government buildings and a prison Wednesday killing 19 people in a coordinated attack that the Taliban said was in retaliation for the mistreatment of prisoners, according to Afghan officials.
She's been called the "mother of the believers," a middle-aged woman possibly responsible for recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers in Iraq and involvement in at least 28 terrorist operations.
A suicide bomber driving a van packed with explosives detonated in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least one civilian and wounding several others, including three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers, government spokesman Ahmadzia Abdulzai told CNN.
Two explosions have struck a small cafe in volatile northwestern Pakistan, killing six people, including two police officers, local police and an official said.
A 14-year-old who was trained to kill by radicals in the tribal regions of Pakistan now sits in a crowded classroom at a detention facility in Kabul. His only wish is to see his parents again.
Hamas is an Islamic fundamentalist organization whose military wing has admitted responsibility for terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers.
Suicide bombers struck two targets in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, including a gathering of tribal leaders, leaving at least 24 dead, according to local officials and state-run media.
A female suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a courthouse Wednesday in central Baquba, killing nine people, the Interior Ministry said.
Suicide attacks outside two Shiite mosques killed at least 20 people in Baghdad on Thursday as worshippers left early morning prayers marking the end of Ramadan, the Interior Ministry said.
A suicide attack late Tuesday evening in the restive area of Swat killed three soldiers and wounded six others, the Pakistani military told CNN.
A female suicide bomber detonated explosives Monday evening in Balad Ruz, killing at least 20 people and wounding 30, according to the Interior Ministry and Col. Ragheb al-Omairi, a Diyala military spokesman.
A suicide bomber with explosives hidden beneath his traditional robe blew himself up Tuesday in a crowd of Iraqis trying to join the police force, killing at least 25 people
The woman ridicules the Iraqi police who question her about ties to suicide bombers.
Four people were killed Saturday in two bombings in an extremist violence-plagued region of northwestern Pakistan, close to the border with Afghanistan, officials said.
The Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for dual suicide bombings at a Pakistani military arms factory that police said killed 66 people and wounded more than 70 others.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for dual suicide bombings at a Pakistani military arms factory on Thursday that police say killed 100 people and wounded 80 others.
Insurgents ambushed a group of elite French soldiers as they climbed a mountain pass, killing 10 troops in a militant stronghold outside the capital
Ten French soldiers were killed Tuesday in fighting near the Afghan capital of Kabul after 100 insurgents attacked a patrol, authorities said.
Iraqi security forces arrested three women, accusing them of plotting suicide bombings against the country's armed forces, the Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN on Wednesday.
Four female suicide bombers and a gunman killed at least 70 people and wounded almost 300 others during a string of attacks in central Baghdad and Kirkuk on Monday, officials said.
Two suicide bombers detonated explosives-laden vests, one after the other, outside an Iraqi army base Tuesday north of Baghdad, killing at least 28 people and wounding 55 others, officials said.
Nine U.S. troops were killed Sunday in an attack on a base in a remote province of eastern Afghanistan, a Western official said.
Residents reported hearing two explosions Monday morning in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, which is home to the army's headquarters, police said.
Female suicide bombers, who often slip through security checkpoints untouched because of cultural norms, are taking a more deadly toll than ever across Iraq.
The story of Hasna Maryi is unique. The way she died is becoming disturbingly more common in Iraq
The mother's voice lacks emotion as she recalls how her daughter became a suicide bomber.
The US military blamed al-Qaeda in Iraq for a double suicide bombing that killed at least 35 people during a wedding procession in a town northeast of Baghdad
A female suicide car bomber attacked an Iraqi security forces checkpoint in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least three Iraqis and wounding 14, an Interior Ministry official said.
Three suicide bombers and a car bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday capped off a day of nationwide violence that left at least 15 people dead and 94 wounded, police and Iraqi officials said.
A suicide attack in front of a mosque in southwestern Afghanistan killed 16 people and wounded more than 30 others on Thursday
A wave of bombings blamed on al Qaeda in Iraq shook Baghdad and three provincial capitals Tuesday, killing at least 60 people and wounding more than 100 across Iraq.
Israeli forces have arrested a wanted Hamas leader accused of planning one of the worst suicide attacks on Israel, the Israeli military announced Wednesday.
Two bombings in separate Iraq provinces on Monday killed eight U.S. troops, the U.S. military said.
Twin suicide bombers set off explosives at a naval college in Pakistan Tuesday, killing at least five other people and wounding at least 16, one critically, the government said.
Gunmen fired on a children's aid group in Pakistan's tribal region Monday, leaving three staffers dead and at least one critically injured, the organization said.
Sardar Rehman is a politically active father of five for whom campaign rallies had, until now, been a family event.
Terrorists increasingly favor using women as suicide bombers to thwart security and draw attention to their causes, a new FBI-Department of Homeland Security assessment concludes.
The first suicide attack on Israel in a year may be linked to the opening of the border fence between Gaza and Egypt
A suicide bomber blew himself up Monday in the southern town that houses Israel's secretive nuclear reactor, killing an Israeli woman and wounding seven other people
Suspected Islamic extremists arrested last week in Barcelona were planning al Qaeda-style attacks in Spain, Germany, France, Britain and Portugal, according to an informant who "infiltrated" the group, Spain's El Pais newspaper reports.
The Spanish judge overseeing the arraignment of 10 terrorism suspects said Wednesday that they had "planned to carry out a series of suicide attacks" last weekend on public transportation in Barcelona.
U.S. planes bombarded al Qaeda in Iraq safe havens on the southern outskirts of Baghdad on Sunday, hours after a suicide bomber carrying explosives in a candy box killed six people in Anbar province.
A suicide bomber killed at least 23 people and injured more than 58 others after detonating an explosive outside a court in Lahore on Thursday, police said.
Samina Rajput speaks in hushed tones about her husband, Asif, who was killed alongside former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in the December 27 attack that convulsed the nation.
A deadly suicide bombing in Lahore breaks a two-week lull in the troubled nation and could be a harbinger of more to come
There have been conflicting accounts of how former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto died Thursday. Here is a timeline of the accounts reported by CNN.
Dozens of people picking up cylinders of cooking gas were victims of a suicide car bomb attack Tuesday morning in the northern Iraqi city of Baiji.
A suicide bomber's attack on a bus near Rawalpindi early Monday wounded the bus driver and five children, a Pakistani military spokesman said.
Three attacks in four days highlight the deteriorating security situation in the Afghan capital as ordinary Afghans find themselves increasingly in the crosshairs
Her enemies range from al-Qaeda to the military, but whoever is reponsible, the blasts could scare off her supporters
October 12 is the anniversary of two acts of terror -- on the U.S.S. Cole and in Bali -- that were important turning points in radical Islam's war on the West
A suicide bomber blew himself up in the entrance to a bus carrying Afghan police and civilians in Kabul Tuesday morning, killing and wounding at least 10 people, according to authorities.
He was 17 and terrified. The Taliban had indoctrinated him well. Nothing we do in Afghanistan will stop people like Farhad
Suicide bombers struck twice in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday killing at least 31 people in two separate attacks as the death toll from a weekend of violence continued to mount.
A videotape supposedly showing a suicide bomber "graduation ceremony" at an al Qaeda-Taliban training camp is part of a propaganda campaign from the terrorist network and the former rulers of Afghanistan, a U.S. counterterrorism official said Monday.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday at a public gathering in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 28 people and injuring at least 37 others, police said.
At least 17 people were killed when a Russian-made Mi-8 military transport helicopter crashed in the volatile province of Chechnya Friday.
Bombers launched two deadly strikes Thursday in crowded Shiite marketplaces in Baghdad and a town north of Iraq's capital, killing 119 people and wounding 171. At least 17 others died in other bombings and gunfire around the country.
A terrorist group linked to al Qaeda claimed responsibility for Friday's assassination attempt on Iraq's deputy prime minister and warned of future attacks on other "traitors."
The idea that poverty breeds terror appears obvious; how could it be otherwise? And people as different as the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Bush, Jacques Chirac and Pakistan's leader, Pervez Musharraf, have also noted a link between poverty and terrorism.
A suicide bomber detonated Monday as he tried to enter a Shia religious procession in northwestern Pakistan, killing himself and a police officer, police sources said.
At least 13 people, including a senior police official, were killed Saturday evening in a suicide bombing near a crowded Shiite mosque in Peshawar, police sources told CNN.
A suicide attack outside a NATO military base in eastern Afghanistan has killed at least eight people and wounded five others, a statement from the military alliance said.
Several of the alleged July 21 bomb plotters were under police surveillance on a camping trip in northern England over a year before the attempted suicide attacks, a court heard on Wednesday.
A court in London has been shown dramatic footage prosecutors say shows a would-be suicide bomber trying to detonate his bomb on a London Underground train packed with terrified passengers.
Seven people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a security contractor's office in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, a U.N. spokesman said.
A suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt blew himself up inside a bus Monday in northeastern Baghdad, killing 10 people and wounding 17 others, emergency police said.
Imagine yourself inside the mind of Osama bin Laden.
At least 13 people were killed, including women and children, when a suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body in a busy shopping and pedestrian area of Kabul on Saturday morning, police and U.N. officials said.
A suicide bomber killed the governor of Afghanistan's southeastern Paktia province Sunday afternoon as he was leaving his office, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
A message from one of the four suicide bombers who launched the subway attacks in London last year promised more violence, according to a videotape aired by Al-Jazeera on the eve of the anniversary of last year's deadly strike.
At least 36 people were killed Saturday in a string of attacks around Baghdad, police say.
On the day suicide bombers blew themselves up in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Dahab, I switched the TV in the Atlanta anchor office to Egyptian television. I wanted to see how local media were covering the news of the triple bombing that killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens more on April 24th.
Egypt's interior minister said Wednesday that there is a connection between previous bombings at Egyptian seaside resorts and this week's triple bombing in Dahab.
Sri Lankan troops are targeting Tamil Tiger rebel positions one day after a suicide bomber killed at least six people in the capital of Colombo.
Hours after a suicide bomber targeted a military convoy, severely injuring the commander of Sri Lankan forces, the country's air force mounted airstrikes on rebel positions, raising concerns that a nearly four-year-old cease-fire with Tamil Tiger rebels has ended.
A man who dressed as a suicide bomber during London protests against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed has been arrested, police said.
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