Terrorism

Indonesian police Saturday were studying DNA evidence from the remains of two suicide bombers who carried out twin attacks on luxury Jakarta hotels, as security was tightened across the country. Suspected Islamist suicide bombers detonated powerful devices at the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott hotels in an upmarket business district Friday, leaving nine dead and...
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BAGHDAD – Suicide bombers struck two Shiite mosques in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens during celebrations marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. To the north, suspected Shiite militiamen gunned down six members of a Sunni family, including women and children, police reported. Those attacks...
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ALGIERS (AFP) – Three people were killed and six others were wounded in a suicide attack near the Algerian capital, APS news agency quoted security officials as saying on Monday. The bomber blew up his car packed with explosives near the town of Dellys, about 40 kilometres (20 miles) east of Algiers, late Sunday...
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) — Over a dozen Israeli soldiers and some civilians were wounded here late Monday night when a Palestinian man steered a car into a crowd, said police and rescue workers. The driver was shot dead at the scene by a military officer in the incident, which happened around 11:00 p.m....
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Rescuers picked their way yesterday through the smouldering ruins of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, looking for more bodies after a huge bomb devastated the building in one of Pakistan’s worst terrorist attacks. The death toll last night stood at 53, with 266 wounded, after a bomber blew up a lorry containing 600kg of...
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JAKARTA: A bomb exploded Sunday near an airport built by a U.S. gold mining giant in Indonesia’s Papua Province, the police said. No one was hurt and there was little damage. The blast about a kilometer from the runway at Moses Kilangin airport came days after two mortars were detonated on a road leading...
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BAGHDAD: Eight people were killed and 25 wounded Wednesday in double bombings in a busy section of central Baghdad filled with currency exchange shops and medical clinics, according to an official with the Interior Ministry. The first bomb exploded at about 11:20 a.m. and appears, according to several witnesses, to have been placed in...
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Heavily armed militants opened fire on the United States Embassy in Sana, Yemen, on Wednesday and detonated a car bomb at its gates, in an attack that left at least 16 people dead including six of the attackers, Yemeni officials said. No Americans were killed or wounded in the blast or when guards began...
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At least seven people were killed and more than 70 hurt when blasts tore through crowds celebrating independence day, Mexican authorities have said. The explosions happened shortly before midnight, as people gathered in the centre of the western city of Morelia. Local media reports suggest they may have been caused by grenades. The city...
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At least 22 people have been killed and 32 wounded by a female suicide bomber who blew herself at a police gathering in Iraq’s Diyala province, police say. The guests were attending an Iftar banquet, when Muslims break their fast during the month of Ramadan, in Balad Ruz, 70km (45 miles) north of Baghdad....
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