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SF Gate
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Iraqi security forces say a large explosion demolished a building in the southern city of Basra. At least three militants were killed and four were wounded.
British military spokesman Maj. Tom Holloway says it's not clear what caused Monday's blast but..
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SF Gate
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Rebel soldiers shot and critically wounded East Timor's president and opened fire on the prime minister Monday in a failed coup attempt in the recently independent nation. A top rebel leader was killed during one of the attacks.
President Jose Ramos-Ho..
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CNN
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A suicide bombing in Iraq's volatile Diyala province ripped through a "reconciliation meeting" on Monday night attended by Sunni and Shiite militia leaders -- a brazen attack that killed and wounded dozens and fractured an effort to foster amity between t..
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CNN
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Attackers targeting Iraqi police and civilians in and around Baghdad on Sunday killed 27 people and wounded 45 others, Iraqi officials said. Sunday's deadliest attack happened about 20 miles (30 kilometers) west of Baghdad when a bomb hit a truck carrying..
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Al Jazeera
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This is a big disaster for the town, all of the casualties were civilians," he added. CorpsesAmbulances and private cars ferried dozens of corpses and wounded civilians to nearby clinics and hospitals in where relatives waited for news of the missing...
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FOX News
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A man armed with a 21-inch-long knife killed nine people, including six children, and wounded 17 others in a rampage early Saturday in a central Philippine province, police said.
The man first attacked and wounded five members of his cousin's family wi..
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USA Today
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A suicide bomber hit a police recruiting center Thursday in Fallujah, killing as many as 25 people, police said. The U.S. military said only one policeman was killed and eight were wounded.
U.S. forces backed by helicopter gunships clashed with suspect..
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BBC News
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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..
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CBS News
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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..
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SF Gate
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A roadside bomb killed four Shiite pilgrims and wounded 15 south of Baghdad Monday in at least the third fatal attack on people traveling to one of their sect's most sacred gatherings, officials said.
The death toll rose from 40 to 56 from a suicide bo..
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CNN
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Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is said to be critically wounded following a suicide attack on a political rally in Rawalpindi, her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, was quoted as saying on CNN affiliate Geo TV. The attack has left at least 14 dead..
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CNN
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A British soldier was killed and two others were wounded in a blast in southern Afghanistan, the British Defence Ministry said on Friday.
Troops were returning to their Kandahar Air Base after an operation Thursday "when a vehicle they were traveling i..
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MSNBC
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Poland’s ambassador to Iraq was wounded on Wednesday when his diplomatic convoy was hit by a series of bombs in central Baghdad, which Polish officials described as an assassination attempt.
Iraqi police said one civilian was killed in the attack and..
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USA Today
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A suicide driver killed three Iraqi policemen and wounded 20 people when he detonated his car at the entrance of police headquarters Tuesday in Basra, raising more fears over the southern city's deteriorating security situation.
Also Tuesday morning, t..
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MSNBC
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U.S. soldier killed, 4 wounded
Also Thursday, the U.S. military reported that a U.S. soldier was killed and four were wounded in combat operations west of the capital Wednesday. No other details were provided.
The death raised to at least 3,723 memb..
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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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SF Gate
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At least 175 people were killed and 200 wounded Tuesday by four truck bombs in a massive coordinated attack against members of a small religious sect, the Yazidis, in northern Iraq, the Iraqi army said.
The nearly simultaneous explosions in three Yazid..
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USA Today
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A Palestinian man grabbed a pistol from an Israeli security guard in Jerusalem's Old City and shot him on Friday, but was shot dead by another guard as he tried to flee, Israeli police said.
Rescue teams reported that nine other people were wounded in..
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BBC News
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At least six people have been killed and 20 hurt in a suspected suicide bombing in Afghanistan, the Nato-led international force (Isaf) says.
The bomber blew himself up near a Nato-led convoy in a market place in Dehrawood in the southern province of U..
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USA Today
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U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in southern Afghanistan left at least 30 people, including women and children, killed or wounded, a local official said Saturday.
Taliban fighters tried to ambush a joint U.S.-Afghan military convoy in Helmand province's G..
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