The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbad has condemned the bomb explosion that killed seven people in Zamfara State, describing the attack as cowardly and unacceptable. The explosion occurred on Saturday along the Magami–Dansadau highway in Maru Local Government Area, where suspected terrorists reportedly planted an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on the road, […]
At least 5 people have been reported dead and several injured in a fresh Boko Haram explosion in the popular Bayan Tasha market/ motor park in Damaturu, Yobe state. The bomb blast was said to have taken place around 11 am today, saturday and was detonated by a small boy suspected to be at most, […]
Six suspected ISIS militants, including two Air Force personnel, were charged on Thursday in Malaysia, police said. They face up to 30 years imprisonment if convicted of promoting acts of terrorism. The suspects, who appeared before the Sessions Court of Alor Setar in the northern state of Kedah, were among 17 arrested this month in […]
Afghan officials say five civilians were killed when a bomb detonated inside a house in the southern Zabul province, while in the north Taliban insurgents are clashing with police. Atta Jan, head of the Zabul provincial council, said Monday that two children and a woman were among those killed in the explosion the night before […]
At least 22 people were killed in explosions across Iraq late Sunday, including a suicide car bomb attack on a military post in western Anbar province, police and medical sources said. The deadliest attack came when a car packed with explosives was detonated at an army checkpoint near the town of al-Nukhaib, an outpost on […]
Egyptian police said on Saturday that four Islamists were killed in an accidental explosion while preparing bombs south of the capital. Police said the suspected militants were members of the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood movement of former Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, whom the army toppled in 2013. The explosion took place on Friday on a farm […]
A bomb exploded outside Spain’s embassy in the Libyan capital on Monday night without causing injuries, a security source told AFP, an attack later claimed by the Islamic State (ISIS) group. “Islamic State extremists concealed an explosive device near an exterior wall of the Spanish embassy building in Tripoli, which caused some material damage to […]
The UN children’s agency mourned on Tuesday four staff members killed in what UN chief Ban Ki-moon condemned as a “barbaric attack” in Somalia. Two of those killed in Monday’s bombing in the north-eastern town of Garowe came from Kenya, the other two from Afghanistan and Uganda. Unicef named the two Kenyans as Woki Munyui, […]
Seven people are feared dead in an attack on the higher education ministry in a busy area of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Witnesses told the press that car loaded with explosives was driven into the wall surrounding the compound and there is an ongoing gun battle. A police official said that gunfire was coming from inside […]
A bomb explosion in a shopping mall parking lot in southern Thailand has triggered fears of more violence targeting the country’s highly lucrative tourism industry. Police and officials are intensifying investigations into possible links to Thailand’s fragile political climate or to Muslim insurgents from nearby southern provinces. The bomb blast in the […]
Authorities in Pakistan said two suicide bombings outside Christian churches in the eastern city of Lahore have killed, at least, 15 people and wounded more than 70 others, and a militant gang allied to the outlawed Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility. The bombings minutes apart targeted a Catholic and a Protestant church in […]