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Member of UN peacekeeping mission killed in Mali bomb blast
Agence France-Presse . Bamako | Updated at 09:59am on January 16, 2021
The United Nations said one of its peacekeepers died when a convoy travelling through northern Mali hit a makeshift roadside bomb on Friday, the fifth...
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Five women killed in Yemen wedding hall blast
Agence France-Presse . Hodeida | Updated at 03:51pm on January 02, 2021
Five women were killed in war-torn Yemen when a projectile exploded at a wedding held on New Year’s Day in the Red Sea port city...
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Yemen airport blasts kill 26 as government plane arrives
Agence France-Presse. Aden | Updated at 10:35am on December 31, 2020
At least 26 people were killed when explosions rocked Yemen's Aden airport moments after a new unity government flew in, in what some officials charged...
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Two Afghan cops killed in Kabul explosions
Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 03:09pm on December 26, 2020
Two Afghan policemen were killed as three ‘sticky bombs’ exploded in Kabul on Saturday, the latest violence to hit the Afghan capital...
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Car bomb targeting Afghan MP kills 9
Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 02:09pm on December 20, 2020
A car bomb targeting an Afghan lawmaker killed nine people and wounded more than a dozen in Kabul on Sunday, officials said, the latest attack...
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Several hurt in non-Muslim cemetery bomb blast in Saudi Arabia
Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 05:23pm on November 11, 2020
Several people were wounded Wednesday in a bomb attack at a World War I commemoration ceremony attended by European diplomats at a non-Muslim cemetery in...
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Seven killed in Pakistan school blast
Agence France-Presse . Peshawar, Pakistan | Updated at 12:32pm on October 27, 2020
At least seven students were killed and scores more wounded Tuesday in a bomb attack on a Koran study class at a religious school in...
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Police start quizzing 4 over Paltan bomb blast
Muktadir Rashid | Updated at 12:22am on September 12, 2020
The counter terrorism and transnational crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Friday said that it had started interrogating four young men in connection with...
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33pc cases still pending
Muktadir Rashid | Updated at 11:48pm on August 16, 2020
The trials of about one-third of the 159 cases over the countrywide ‘simultaneous bomb attacks’ by the banned extremist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh on August...
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Journalist killed in Kabul bomb blast
Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 01:12am on May 31, 2020
A roadside bomb killed a journalist and driver after struck a minivan carrying employees of a private Afghan television channel in Kabul on Saturday, killing...