At least 20 people were killed in a suicide bombing Thursday in Pakistan, near its border with Afghanistan, intelligence officials and a local administrator told CNN.
20 dead as suicide bomber strikes in Pakistan
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Rocket hits Afghan presidential compound
A rocket struck the compound of the presidential palace in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, two days before national elections, a palace official said Tuesday.
Bombers dressed as women kill three Afghan officers
Seven suicide bombers dressed as women targeted Afghan police officers about 60 miles from the capital on Tuesday, a police commander said. Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan, the uncle of the groom, did not attend the wedding, according to witnesses
16 dead in Pakistan suicide bombing
A suicide bombing killed 16 people at a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, police said.
Iraq suicide bombing kills five U.S. soldiers
Five U.S. soldiers were killed Friday in a suicide bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the U.S. military said
At least 20 feared dead in Pakistan mosque blast
A suicide bombing at a mosque in Pakistan has killed at least 20 people, according to local police.
Deaths after explosion rocks Islamabad
A police officer was killed Monday in a suicide bombing at the gate of a police station in Islamabad, authorities said.
Al Qaeda blamed for Yemen attack
Yemen says al Qaeda was behind a suicide bombing Sunday that killed four South Korean tourists, according to the Daily Yemen Post. The explosion Sunday evening in the city of Shibam also wounded three other tourists, said Hakim Almasmari, editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper.
Blaze erupts at Marriott Hotel in Pakistan
A fire broke out at a major international hotel in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad Thursday, five months after it was hit by a deadly suicide bombing. Smoke could be seen pouring from the upscale Marriott Hotel, close to the country’s presidential palace
At least 27 dead in Pakistan suicide bombing
Police moved to dissipate possible sectarian violence after a suicide bombing in the middle of a Shia funeral procession killed at least 27 people and injured 75 others in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province Friday morning, police said. Charla Nash, 55, was transferred by airplane and ambulance to the clinic, where doctors in December performed the first facial transplant in the United States