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 Sri Lankan Mosque 
 Blast Kills 10 

Tamil Tiger suicide bomber targeted government ministers

Mar 10, 09 3:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - An explosion at a mosque in southern Sri Lanka has killed at least 10 people, the BBC reports. The suicide attack by the Tamil Tigers was aimed at a group of government ministers visiting the Matara mosque. One cabinet minister is believed to be among more than 20 people seriously... More »

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 12K US Troops to 
 Leave Iraq by Fall 

US will turn over facilities to Iraqi control starting this month

Mar 8, 09 11:43 AM CDT
(AP) - A total of 12000 American and 4000 British troops will leave Iraq by September, the US military said today, just hours after a suicide bomber killed 32 people at the entrance of Baghdad's main police academy. The blast—the second major attack to hit Iraqis in 3 days and the... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • US military • suicide bombing • US troops • drawdown • troop drawdown • Bill Maher Grid

Suicide Bomber Kills 28 at Baghdad Police Academy

Police recruits targeted as US prepares to withdraw

Mar 8, 09 6:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - At least 28 people were killed and 57 wounded today when a suicide bomber struck Baghdad's main police academy, Reuters reports. The attack, carried out by a man on a motorbike wearing a vest packed with explosives, marks the first major strike in Baghdad in over a month. Police recruits... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • suicide bombing • Iraq exit strategy • Bill Maher Grid

 Suicide Bomber Kills 
 30 at Pakistan Funeral 

Curfew imposed, army summoned as death toll mounts

Feb 20, 09 6:39 AM CST
(Newser) - At least 30 people died and 50 more were injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up during a funeral in Pakistan's volatile northwest, reports the New York Times. The bomber targeted the funeral of a Shia Muslim who was shot only yesterday, and eyewitnesses described seeing limbs scattered across... More »

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Pakistan • Sunni • suicide bomber • suicide bombing • Shia • North West Frontier Province

 Suicide Bomber Kills 35 in Iraq 

Women, children targeted en route Shia to holy city

Feb 13, 09 9:15 AM CST
(Newser) - A female suicide bomber killed at least 35 Iraqi pilgrims on the way to a religious festival today, reports CNN. Another 45 were wounded. The victims, mainly women and children, were in the town of Mussayib, about 40 miles south of Baghdad. Hundreds of thousands of Shia pilgrims are currently... More »

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Iraq • Karbala • suicide bombing • Shia • Iraq violence • female suicide bomber • religious pilgrims

(Newser) - Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration’s special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, arrived in the region yesterday as waves of killings were washing over both countries, the BBC reports. While touring Pakistan’s volatile frontier region, a local official was killed by a roadside bomb. At the same time in... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • Peshawar • suicide bombing • Kabul • Obama administration • Richard Holbrooke • President Obama

(Newser) - Gunmen launched coordinated suicide attacks on three government buildings in Afghanistan’s capital today, killing at least 19 and injuring more than 50, the BBC reports. Attackers armed with AK-47s, grenades, and in some cases explosive vests hit the prison directorate and the justice and education ministries. The Taliban claimed... More »

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 Afghan Bomber Kills 21 Cops 

Suicide bomber disguised himself as police reservist

Feb 2, 09 6:39 AM CST
(Newser) - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside an Afghan police station, killing at least 21 policemen in an attack claimed by the Taliban, reports the BBC. The attack in the south of the country is the deadliest in months. A police spokesman in Uruzgan said the bomber wore a police... More »

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5 US Troops Killed in
Wave of Afghan Attacks

Including 5 American soldiers

Jan 9, 09 7:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Three American soldiers were killed today when their Humvee hit a roadside bomb in Southern Afghanistan, and two were killed yesterday, as a string of attacks took 18 lives in the country over the past two days. Earlier today a suicide bomber blew himself up in a fruit shop in... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • suicide bombing • roadside bomb • Afghanistan war

Dozens Killed in Iraqi Pilgrimage Bombing

Woman bomber hid explosives under abaya

Jan 4, 09 8:14 AM CST
(Newser) - At least 40 people were killed and 70 injured today when a female suicide bomber with explosives tucked under her abaya attacked a Shia pilgrimage in northwest Baghdad, CNN reports. Many of the dead were women and included Iranians marking the Shia holy period of Ashura. The bomber apparently targeted... More »

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Suicide
Bomber in
Iraq Kills 30

Blast south of
Baghdad takes place during tribal gathering

Jan 2, 09 9:45 AM CST
(AP) - A suicide bomber sneaked into a luncheon gathering called by the leader of a local tribe, killing 30 people and wounding 110 today, police said. The blast in Youssifiyah in the Sunni-dominated region south of Baghdad comes less than a month after a suicide bomber killed 55 people at a... More »

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 Kid Toll Hits 14 
 in Afghan Bombing 

Kid toll rises as Pakistan bomb kills 30 people

Dec 29, 08 2:48 AM CST
(Newser) - The toll of child victims in an Afghanistan suicide bombing yesterday has risen to 14, reports the Guardian. An exploding truck in eastern Afghanistan killed the children as they walked home from the last day of school for the year. There's no doubt the driver spotted the kids before detonating... More »

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UPDATED

 Suicide Bomber Kills 55 
 in Iraqi Restaurant 

ALL ART IS FILE STUFF. NOTHING FROM AP YET

Dec 11, 08 9:55 AM CST
(AP) - A suicide bomber killed 55 people and wounded 120 in a crowded restaurant in northern Iraq today, as Kurdish officials were meeting there with Arab tribal leaders to discuss long-standing ethnic tensions, the AP reports. It appeared to be the deadliest attack in Iraq in nearly 6 months.The blast... More »

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Iraq • terrorism • Kurdistan • Kurds • suicide bombing • oil field • Kirkuk

 Bombings Kill 31 
 in Baghdad, Mosul 

Suicide attacks rock police academy, US-Iraqi patrol

Dec 1, 08 7:40 AM CST
(AP) - Suicide bombers struck today near a Baghdad police academy and in Mosul against a joint US-Iraqi patrol, together killing 31 people, Iraqi officials said. In Baghdad, a car bomb exploded outside the heavily fortified academy. Minutes later, a suicide attacker blew himself up as police rushed to respond to the... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • US military • suicide bombing • car bomb • Mosul • Iraq Army • Iraq war

Mumbai-Style Terror Poses Threat to Western Cities

Well-organized attack could become the norm

Nov 29, 08 4:43 PM CST
(Newser) - Counter-terror officials say they fear for Western cities after analyzing the Mumbai terror attack, the Guardian reports. The strike was far more sophisticated than the self-radicalized, self-selected suicide attackers seen in London. “The Mumbai operation was planned, premeditated and executed under a command and control apparatus,” said... More »

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 Pakistan Suicide Bomber Kills 7 

Blast in northwest kills civilians, police officers

Nov 28, 08 8:16 AM CST
(AP) - A suicide car bomber killed seven people in Pakistan's restless Northwest Frontier Province, the AP reports. The chief of police in the town of Bammu said the attacker rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a police car patrolling the town's streets today. Four police officers and three civilians died in the... More »

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 Kabul Blast 
 Kills 4 Near 
 US Embassy 

Suicide car bombers struck as Westerners gathered for Thanksgiving run

Nov 27, 08 3:48 AM CST
(Newser) - At least four Afghans were killed when a suicide car bomber struck 200 yards outside the American embassy in Kabul this morning, AP reports. The embassy said none of its personnel was injured in the blast, which happened as Americans and other Westerners were entering the embassy compound for a... More »

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 US Soldier Among 9 
 Killed in Afghan Market 

Attack brings year's death toll to 5,400

Nov 13, 08 8:09 AM CST
(AP) - A suicide car bomber struck a US military convoy passing through a crowded livestock market in eastern Afghanistan today, killing an American soldier and at least eight civilians and wounding an additional 74 civilians. Yesterday, two British troops were also killed when their vehicle was struck by an explosive while... More »

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Somali Suicide Bombers Strike UN Compound

At least 22 dead in series of coordinated blasts as talks begin

Oct 29, 08 8:02 AM CDT
(AP) - Suicide bombers struck a UN compound and several other targets in northern Somalia today, killing at least 22 people, as talks about Somalia's political crisis began in neighboring Kenya, officials said. "We are still counting the bodies," said a spokesman for the breakaway republic of Somaliland, where bombers... More »

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 Holiday Blasts 
 Kill 19 Iraqis 
 Near Shia Sites 

6 others shot on bus in effort to reignite sectarian violence

Oct 2, 08 7:55 AM CDT
(AP) - Suicide bombers targeted Shia worshipers as they left morning prayers today at two Baghdad mosques, killing 19 people and injuring 50, police say. In a separate attack, gunmen fatally shot six people as they traveled in a minibus 60 miles north of Baghdad. Attacks on Shia civilians are widely associated... More »

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Iraq • Sunni • suicide bombing • Shia • Iraq Army • al-Qaeda in Iraq • Eid

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