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Roadside bomb kills 10 aboard minibus in Turkey (AP)

September 16th, 2010

AP - A roadside bomb attack killed 10 people traveling on a minibus Thursday in the latest violence to shake Turkey’s turbulent southeast, where Kurdish guerrillas have been fighting for…

Roadside bomb kills 9 aboard minibus in Turkey (AP)

September 16th, 2010

AP - A roadside bomb attack killed nine people traveling aboard a minibus Thursday in the latest violence to shake Turkey’s turbulent southeast, where Kurdish guerrillas have been fighting for…

Roadside bomb kills 9 Iraqi soldiers near Mosul (AP)

September 15th, 2010

U.S. Army soldiers secure the scene of a roadside bomb attack in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)AP - Iraqi officials say a roadside bomb has struck a bus carrying Iraqi soldiers, killing nine and injuring five more near the northern city of Mosul.


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Eiffel Tower reopens after bomb threat, evacuation (AP)

September 15th, 2010

Police officers stand in front of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, Tuesday Sept. 14, 2010. Paris' Eiffel Tower and its immediate surroundings were evacuated Tuesday evening after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat. About 2,000 people were cleared from the 324 meter (1,063-ft.) monument on the banks of the Seine River, and police were checking it for suspicious objects. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP - The Eiffel Tower has reopened a day after being evacuated because of a bomb threat from an anonymous caller.


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Police: Eiffel Tower bomb threat was false alarm (AP)

September 15th, 2010

A police officer stands front the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, Tuesday Sept. 14, 2010. Paris' Eiffel Tower and its immediate surroundings were evacuated Tuesday evening after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat. About 2,000 people were cleared from the 324 meter (1,063-ft.) monument on the banks of the Seine River, and police were checking it for suspicious objects. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP - The Eiffel Tower and its immediate surroundings were evacuated Tuesday evening after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat, but explosives experts scoured France’s most-visited monument and…

Reports: Eiffel Tower bomb threat was false alarm (AP)

September 14th, 2010

A police officer stands front the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, Tuesday Sept. 14, 2010. Paris' Eiffel Tower and its immediate surroundings were evacuated Tuesday evening after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat. About 2,000 people were cleared from the 324 meter (1,063-ft.) monument on the banks of the Seine River, and police were checking it for suspicious objects. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP - The area under Paris’ Eiffel Tower has been opened up to tourists again after an anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat and police combed through the famous…

Mexican police neutralize car bomb in border city (AP)

September 11th, 2010

A crime scene investigator points his flashlight at a body in front of a home in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, early Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. According to eyewitness accounts at the scene, gunmen opened fire from a car at people standing outside a house, killing five and injuring two. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)AP - Mexican police carried out the controlled detonation of a car bomb Saturday in the troubled border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from Texas.


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Day of mourning for Russian car bomb victims (AP)

September 10th, 2010

In this image made from television, the wreckage of a car destroyed in a suicide car attack is seen in a square outside a market in Vladikavkaz, North Caucasus, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. A suicide car bomber hit the central market of Vladikavkaz on Thursday, killing more than a dozen and wounding more than 130 people in one of the worst terror attacks in the volatile region in years, officials said. (AP Photo/AP Television News) ** IMAGE FROM TV**  TV OUT **AP - Flags are at half-staff in the Russian Caucasus city of Vladikavkaz and stunned residents are laying flowers in a rubble-strewn square where a suicide car bombing killed 17…

Pakistan to charge 3 over failed Times Square bomb (AP)

September 8th, 2010

AP - Pakistan will soon bring terrorism charges against three men alleged to have helped the failed Times Square bomber meet up with militant leaders close to the Afghan border…

Suicide car bomb explodes in Baghdad kills 8 (AP)

September 5th, 2010

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L-R), U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Mike Mullen stand during the U.S. national anthem during a change of command ceremony in Baghdad September 1, 2010. The U.S. Military's Outgoing commander Raymond Odierno will hand over to Lieutenant General Lloyd Austin.br /<br /></a> REUTERS/Jim Watson/Pool  (IRAQ - Tags: IMAGES OF THE DAY POLITICS MILITARY)AP - Militants detonated a car bomb at a Baghdad military headquarters on Sunday and then tried to shoot their way into the building, killing eight people and wounding 29…