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 38 Iraqis Killed 
 in Bloodiest 
 Ramadan Day 

Bombs wreak havoc in central Baghdad

Sep 29, 08 3:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - At least 20 people were killed yesterday when a suicide bomber detonated a vest of explosives amid a crowd of onlookers that had gathered after an earlier car bomb exploded in central Baghdad. A total of 34 people were killed in attacks in Baghdad and another four died in Dayala... More »

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Baghdad • suicide bombing • car bomb • Ramadan

 Yemen Arrests 30 
 in Embassy Attack 

US investigators to help Yemeni authorities

Sep 18, 08 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Yemeni police today rounded up 30 people, all suspected of links to al-Qaeda, in response to yesterday's attack on the US embassy that killed 16. The US has pledged to send agents to help local authorities "investigate whether the suspects are linked" to the attack, a security source tells... More »

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 Toll Hits 70
 in Pakistan
 Bombings

Taliban blasts rock civilian government

Aug 22, 08 5:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - The death toll in yesterday's twin suicide blasts in Pakistan has risen to 70 people as the tragedy continues to rattle the civilian government just days after the ouster of President Pervez Musharraf, the New York Times reports. Pakistan's Taliban has claimed responsibility for the bombings at the gates of... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • suicide bomber • suicide bombing • Islamic militants • Pakistan militants

 Twin Algeria Bombings Kill 11

Second day of violence leaves dozens wounded in Bouira

Aug 20, 08 6:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two car bombs killed 11 people and left 31 wounded in the Algerian city of Bouira, just a day after a suicide bombing in Algiers killed dozens more. Today's bombs targeted a hotel and a military command center, and one of the explosions occurred as a passenger bus drove past.... More »

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terrorism • insurgents • Algeria • suicide bombing • Algiers • car bomb • Bouira

 Pakistan Hospital Bomb Kills 23

Shia mourners killed in volatile northwest province

Aug 19, 08 7:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Twenty-three people died today and another 20 were wounded in a suspected suicide bomb attack in a Pakistani hospital. The blast took place in the North West Frontier Province, the highly volatile region bordering Afghanistan. The explosion took place as Shia Muslims were mourning the death of a leader, who... More »

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Pakistan • sectarian violence • suicide bomber • suicide bombing • Shia • hospital • North West Frontier Province • Shiite militants

Bombing Outside US Base
in Afghanistan Kills 12

Second car bomb thwarted; suicide team repelled in follow-up attacks

Aug 19, 08 6:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - A suicide bomber killed 12 workers and wounded 22 others after detonating his vehicle outside a US military base in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, the New York Times reports. No American military personnel were injured or killed. A second suicide car-bomber tried to follow soon after but was turned back, as... More »

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War on Terror • Taliban • coalition forces • suicide bombing • car bomb • Afghanistan war

Suicide Bomber Kills Dozens
in Algeria

Attack occurs at police training academy near capital of Algiers

Aug 19, 08 6:34 AM CDT
(AP) - A suicide car bomber struck a police academy in Algeria today, killing at least 43 people and injuring 38, says the country’s Interior Ministry.  The toll was a "preliminary estimate" for the attack in Boumerdes, some 35 miles east of Algiers. The attack occurred as young applicants... More »

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Pakistani Suicide Bombers Tipping Afghan War

Taliban finds success recruiting uneducated men with few options

Aug 1, 08 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - One says he wanted to kill himself anyway. Another says he was duped. Both were captured in failed suicide bombings in Afghanistan, where such attacks were unheard of until the last 2 years, denounced by village elders as cowardly and un-Islamic. Now, these bombings are at all-time highs as the... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • terrorism • Pakistan • suicide bomber • suicide bombing • al-Qaeda

 Iraqi Suicide Blasts Kill 50

Bombers strike in Baghdad and Kirkuk

Jul 28, 08 6:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Suicide attacks in Iraq today killed at least 50 people and injured about 250, making it one of deadliest days in the country in months, Reuters reports. In Baghdad, three female suicide bombers blew themselves up during a religious pilgrimage, killing 28 and injuring 92. In the northern city of... More »

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Iraq • Shiite • Baghdad • suicide bombing • Shia • female suicide bomber • al-Qaeda • al-Qaeda in Iraq

UPDATED

 Suicide Bombers
 Kill 35 in Iraq 

Dozens more wounded in attack on army recruitment center

Jul 15, 08 5:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in an Iraqi army recruitment center, killing 35 people and wounding at least 63, the New York Times reports. Most of the dead were recruits. The attack took place in Baquba, the capital of Iraq's ethnically mixed Diyala province. On Sunday the country's interior... More »

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Iraq • suicide bomber • suicide bombing • Baquba • Iraq death toll

Taliban Shows Fresh Fangs in US Base Attack

Secure in Pakistan, insurgents gain next door in Afghanistan

Jul 14, 08 3:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Taliban demonstrated complex tactics and a renewed taste for conventional warfare in the attack on a remote outpost that claimed the lives of nine US soldiers yesterday, Reuters reports. The militants drove the residents from a nearby village and used it as a base of operations from which to... More »

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Afghanistan • NATO • Taliban • Pakistan • suicide bombing • US Army • warfare

updated

9 US Troops Die in Afghan Attack; Suicide Bomb Kills 24

But at least 40 militants killed in separate attack on coalition forces

Jul 13, 08 12:31 PM CDT
(AP) - A multi-pronged militant assault on a remote US base killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 today in the deadliest attack on US forces in Afghanistan in 3 years, officials said. The attack came the same day a suicide bomber targeting a police patrol killed 24 people, while US coalition... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • suicide bomber • suicide bombing • Helmand province

 Kabul Bomb Kills 41
 at Indian Embassy 

Deadliest attack this year in Afghan capital

Jul 7, 08 4:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb outside the Indian embassy in Kabul today, killing 41 people and injuring 141. Several diplomats were among the dead, as well as children, security guards and visa seekers on the crowded street in the Afghan capital, reports CNN. The huge blast was the... More »

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Afghanistan • India • suicide bombing • Kabul • car bomb

Pakistan Suicide Blast Kills 11 at Mosque Memorial

Victims mostly police officers on anniversary of violence

Jul 7, 08 3:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - A suicide bombing near Pakistan’s Red Mosque killed at least 11 and wounded more than 22, most of them police officers, the New York Times reports. Thousands were nearby yesterday to observe the anniversary of a showdown between militants and security forces which killed more than 100 people last... More »

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Pakistan • police • suicide bombing • Red Mosque • Red Mosque crisis • terrorist attack

 Desperation Drives 
 Iraq's Female Bombers 

Death of insurgents leaves female relatives feeling suicide is their only option

Jul 5, 08 7:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Female suicide bombings are on the rise in Iraq's restive Diyala province, the New York Times reports, and success in combating al-Qaeda may be the cause. Many local insurgents have been killed or detained, leaving their surviving female relatives with little hope for the future. They often come under great... More »

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Iraq • Diyala • suicide bomber • suicide bombing • Sunni insurgents • female suicide bomber • al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia • al-Qaeda in Iraq

18 Afghans Killed by
Bomber in a Burka

Taliban claims responsibility for blast

May 15, 08 4:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A suicide bomber wearing a burka killed 18 people today in a western Afghanistan bazaar, Reuters reports. A spokesman for the Taliban, which claimed responsibility for the attack, said the bomber was a man. The past two years have been Afghanistan’s bloodiest since 2001, and some Western officials fear... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • suicide bombing • burka

ANALYSIS

Hit-and-Run Tactics Keeping Taliban Afloat

'Asymmetrical' warfare has casualties down, hopes of prevailing up

May 2, 08 8:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Taliban might hope Sunday's brazen attack on Afghan president Hamid Karzai signaled a new age of potency for the rebels. But although deaths from Taliban violence are on the rise, the Economist argues, the organization has not grown substantially—it has shifted its strategy away from conventional firefights to... More »

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 Bombs Kill Dozens in Iraq 

35 dead in double wedding blast; US soldier among dead in Baghdad attack

May 1, 08 4:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - As US forces engaged in heavy fighting in the Mahdi Army's Sadr City today, bombings in Baghdad and Diyala province took the lives of as many as 45 Iraqis and one US soldier, the AP reports. The Diyala bombing, in Balad Ruz, was carried out by two suicide bombers—one... More »

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Iraq • US military • suicide bombing • Iraq death toll • wedding • female suicide bomber • al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia • al-Qaeda • Iraq war

Taliban Bombs Afghan Opium Task Force, Killing 18

41 wounded in attack as authorities target skyrocketing drug production

Apr 29, 08 1:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - A suicide bomber struck a meeting today of an Afghan poppy-eradication team, CNN reports, killing at least 18, including 11 police officers and seven civilians. Another 41 were injured in the attack in the eastern Nangarhar province; authorities said the incident was further proof of the rebel Taliban's involvement with... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • suicide bombing • drug trafficking • opium • Afghanistan war

 49 Killed in Suicide Attack
on Iraqi Funeral

Bomber blows self up amid dozens of mourners

Apr 17, 08 6:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - A suicide bomber blew himself up in the middle of a funeral in northern Iraq today, killing 49 mourners. The bomber detonated a vest stuffed with explosives in a village along the border of Diyala and Salahuddin provinces, not far from the site of Tuesday's bomb attack that killed 40.... More »

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Iraq • suicide bombing • Northern Iraq • Diyala Province

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