Conflicts / Tags / Bombing

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- The U.S. military blamed a renegade Shiite group Wednesday for a deadly car bombing in a Baghdad Shiite neighborhood and said it was seeking to re-ignite the sort of sectarian violence that swept the area 18 months ago. Iraqi officials said the death toll.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Oct 19, 2007 @ 12:02pm neoform

CNN -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has highlighted alleged poor security preparations before a suicide bombing killed 136 people near her motorcade. Speaking at a news conference in Karachi on Friday, Bhutto said the street where Thursday's bo.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Sun Jun 17, 2007 @ 10:41am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- The case of the only man found guilty of the Lockerbie bombing, Britain's biggest terrorist outrage that killed 270 people, could be reopened after fresh evidence that his conviction was based on unreliable evidence. If the appeal is successful, Abdelb.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Jun 13, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

USA Today -- Suspected al-Qaeda insurgents on Wednesday destroyed the two minarets of the Askariya Shiite shrine in Samarra, authorities reported, in a repeat of a 2006 bombing that shattered its famous Golden Dome and unleashed a wave of retaliatory sectarian violenc.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun May 13, 2007 @ 11:54am neoform

BBC News -- At least 45 people have been killed and dozens wounded by a suicide truck bombing in the northern Iraqi town of Makhmur, police said. The bomber crashed his truck into the offices of a leading Kurdish party, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, where a meet.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 11:33pm neoform

CBS News -- Nine U.S. soldiers were killed and 20 were wounded Monday in a suicide car bombing against a patrol base northeast of Baghdad, the military said. An Iraqi civilian was also wounded in the attack on Task Force Lightning soldiers in Diyala province, a vo.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 10:00pm neoform

CBS News -- Police said Wednesday that children were used in a weekend car bombing in which the driver gained permission to park in a busy shopping area after he pointed out that he was leaving his children in the back seat. The account appeared to confirm one giv.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Feb 26, 2007 @ 9:32am neoform

CNN -- The Pentagon is engaged in intensive planning to carry out a bombing campaign in Iran on a day's notice to halt the flow of Iranian aid to sectarian militants in Iraq, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh said Sunday. A bombing campaign coul.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jan 29, 2007 @ 9:32am mrmdc

www.isn.ethz.ch -- Monday's suicide bombing at a bakery in a southern Israeli resort town kills three people and threatens to dictate the political and diplomatic agenda and scupper Israeli-Palestinian peace... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Jan 24, 2007 @ 4:31pm mrmdc

Washington Post -- The United States launched an airstrike in Somalia against suspected terrorist targets _ the second such attack this month, defense officials said Wednesday... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Dec 18, 2006 @ 9:35am mrmdc

BBC News -- One of Japan's most senior politicians has said the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 was impermissible from a humanitarian point of view... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Mar 4, 2008 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- At least four people have been killed and 14 injured in a suicide bombing at a naval college in the Pakistani city of Lahore, officials say. Lahore's police chief said two attackers drove by motorcycle into the back entrance of the college and exploded.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Feb 13, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- Lebanese group Hezbollah says one of its top leaders, Imad Mughniyeh, has died in a bombing in Damascus, and has blamed Israel for assassinating him. Mughniyeh is widely believed to be behind a wave of Western hostage-taking in Lebanon in the 1980s. C.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Dec 18, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- Iraqi leaders criticized Turkey on Monday for bombing Kurdish militants in northern Iraq with air strikes that they said left at least one woman dead. The Turkish attacks in Dohuk province on Sunday - involving dozens of warplanes and artillery - were.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Dec 14, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Lebanon's deeply divided politicians united in mourning Friday for a top general whose death in a car bombing has raised fears that even the respected military has become a target in the country's unending political turmoil. Schools and business closed as.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Nov 7, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- Afghanistan has begun three days of mourning, a day after dozens of people were killed in what is being called the country's worst suicide bombing. Politicians, children and teachers were among those killed in the devastating attack in northern Baghlan.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Sep 13, 2007 @ 5:03pm neoform

CNN -- Fifteen soldiers from a Pakistani army unit died in a bombing at their mess hall Thursday, a Pakistani intelligence source said. The Associated Press said two security officials reported the attack was the work of a suicide bomber. More than 25 othe.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Sep 8, 2007 @ 1:44pm neoform

CBS News -- Iran must pay $2.65 billion to the families of the 241 U.S. service members killed in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, a federal judge declared Friday in a ruling that left survivors and families shedding tears of joy. U.S. Distr.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 3:49pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- The white-coloured 40-seater bus was completely destroyed and mutilated bodies lay on the street. "There was a huge bang then I saw the bus in a mangled heap," Mohammad Tahir, a witness, said."Body parts were scattered across the road and there was blo.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Aug 3, 2007 @ 1:28pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- The other suspect in the car, Bilal Abdullah, an Iraqi doctor, has been charged with conspiring to set off explosions, which followed a day after two other failed car bombings in London. Ahmed, an Indian national from Bangalore, suffered burns to 90 p.. Read More