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CNN
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Bombings Tuesday killed at least 48 people in Baghdad and in two major provincial capitals in Iraq. The deadliest attack happened in the Diyala province capital of Baquba when a car bomb detonated outside a crowded restaurant, killing 40 people and woundi..
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CNN
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Two suicide bombings killed five people on Monday in Diyala province -- the volatile Iraq province that has been a major battleground in the war, police said.
In the first attack, an 18-year-old woman blew herself up about 8 a.m. outside the home of a..
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Washington Post
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The confirmed death toll from four coordinated truck bombings in northern Iraq passed 250 Wednesday, as rescue workers used bulldozers and bare hands to recover bodies in two isolated communities near the Syrian border. The attack now ranks as the deadlie..
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CNN
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Three men accused of taking part in an extremist Muslim plot to carry out a series of suicide bombings on London's transport system in July 2005 have been convicted of conspiracy to murder. Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29; Yassin Omar, 26; and Ramzi Mohammed, 25,..
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Washington Post
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A day after twin truck bombings laid waste to predominantly Shiite neighborhoods in the northern Iraqi city of Tall Afar, marauding Shiite gunmen and police executed dozens of Sunnis in retaliatory attacks that many Iraqis feared might precipitate a resur..
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SF Gate
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In January, when President Bush announced his plans to reinforce U.S. troops in Baghdad, Shiite militias were seen as the main worry. Instead, during the early weeks of the operation, deadly bombings by Sunni Arab militants have emerged as a greater dange..
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International Herald Tribune
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Some are already calling it war, a brutal Muslim separatist insurgency in southern Thailand that has taken as many as 2,000 lives in three years, with almost- daily bombings, drive-by shootings, arson and beheadings. It is a conflict the government adm..
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SF Gate
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Some deadly bombings in Baghdad this year:
_June 17: A car bomb tears through a market area in Hurriyah, a mainly Shiite neighborhood, killing at least 51 people.
_May 1: A bomb-rigged parked car explodes as a U.S. patrol is passing through a crowde..
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SF Gate
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Spain's National Court handed down sentences Wednesday stretching to tens of thousands of years to three men for killing 191 people and wounding more than 1,800 others in the March 11, 2004, bombing of Madrid commuter trains.
In practice, those three w..
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SF Gate
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A U.S. air strike killed a man suspected of directing the Aug. 14 truck bombings in northern Iraq that caused the deaths of more than 400 people, the deadliest single terrorist attack since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, military officials said Su..
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CNN
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Truck bombings that killed and wounded hundreds in northern Iraq were a "trademark al Qaeda event" designed to sway U.S. public opinion against the war, a U.S. general said Wednesday. The Tuesday attacks, which targeted Kurdish villages of the Yazidi reli..
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BBC News
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At least 200 people have been killed in a series of bombings apparently aimed at a Kurdish religious minority group in northern Iraq, officials say.
Some 200 more were reported injured as at least four blasts hit areas home to the Yazidi sect near the..
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USA Today
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Rescuers dug through the muddy wreckage of collapsed clay houses in northwest Iraq on Wednesday, uncovering at least 200 bodies from suicide truck bombings the U.S. military blamed on al-Qaeda.
The victims were members of a small Kurdish sect — the Y..
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BBC News
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At least 67 people have been killed and almost 100 have been wounded in two separate bombings in Baghdad, Iraqi police have said.
In one attack, a fuel tanker exploded near a petrol station in the mainly Sunni suburb of Mansour, killing 50.
Earlier,..
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USA Today
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Twin suicide car bombings exploded within 20 minutes of each other in the northern city of Kirkuk on Monday, killing at least 80 people and wounding around 150 in attacks targeting a Kurdish political office and ripping through an outdoor market, police s..
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FOX News
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Officials confirmed Tuesday that an Indian suspect in the failed car bombings in Britain had worked as an aeronautical engineer at a company contracted by the biggest names in aviation.
Kafeel Ahmed, 27, is in a Scottish hospital with burns suffered af..
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FOX News
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Britain marked the second anniversary of the London homicide bombings Saturday, a grim reminder as the country confronted a new wave of terrorism, and an Iraqi doctor appeared in court on charges linked to the most recent foiled attacks.
Bilal Abdullah..
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BBC News
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Detectives are still urgently hunting people suspected of involvement in the attempted car bombings in London and at Glasgow Airport.
Five people were arrested at the weekend, but at least one suspect is still believed to be on the run.
Those held s..
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BBC News
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Police in Indonesia say they have captured the head of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the Islamic militant group blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings.
The man has been named by police as Zarkasih, also known as Mbah.
Police said he was captured last weekend, on..
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USA Today
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Eight American soldiers were killed in roadside bombings and a helicopter crash in a restive province north of Baghdad, the military reported Tuesday, making May the deadliest month of the year for U.S. troops in Iraq.
In other violence, three German c..
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