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Police say bombing of mosque in Pakistan kills 2 (AP)

October 22nd, 2010

US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, seen here on October 18. The United States is looking to expand support for Pakistan in high-level talks, but also encouraging its frontline partner to do more after a string of disputes on how to fight Islamic extremism.(AFP/File/Andreas Solaro)AP - Police say a bomb has exploded in a mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing at least two people.


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Nigeria: Bombing suspect’s brother arrested (AP)

October 17th, 2010

AP - Nigerian security forces arrested the brother of a former militant group leader in the country’s oil-rich southern delta, saying they suspected him of involvement in a bombing that…

UK opens investigation into July 7 bombing deaths (AP)

October 11th, 2010

Victim's family members Sean Cassidy, left, talks to Graham Foulkes outside the High Courts in London as they arrive for the start of the Inquests into the  July 7, 2005 bombing of London's transport system, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. Sean Cassidy's son Kieran and Graham Foulkes' son David were killed in the terrorist attack on London's transport system. A long-delayed inquest into the July 7, 2005, suicide bombings that killed 52 people on London's transit network opened Monday with a minute's silence in memory of the victims.(AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - An inquiry into the 2005 London suicide bombings opened Monday, with victims’ family members reliving their nightmares as details poured out about the slow response to the attacks,…

Karzai tearful as bombing kills Afghan official (AP)

September 28th, 2010

A British soldier mans his position at the rear of a helicopter as it is flies over Helmand province in Afghanistan in August, 2010. Security forces Monday stepped up the hunt for British woman and three Afghans reportedly working for a US development group who were kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan, police said.(AFP/Pool/File/Andrew Winning)AP - A suicide bomber killed a deputy provincial governor and five others Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, police said. Later, a tearful President Hamid Karzai decried the violence, fretting that…

Russians mourn bombing victims; 6 others killed (AP)

September 10th, 2010

Investigators work at the site of a suicide car attack in a square outside a market in Vladikavkaz, North Caucasus, Russia, Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. Thursday's bombing near the central market of the capital of the North Ossetia republic was the most serious attack in Russia since the March subway bombings in Moscow that killed 40 people. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - Clashes between police and alleged militants left six more people dead Friday in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus, even as stunned residents laid flowers in a square where a…

Suicide car bombing in southern Russia kills 17 (AP)

September 9th, 2010

In this image made from television, cars destroyed in a suicide car attack are 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/NTV Russian Channel) ** IMAGE FROM TV**  TV OUT **AP - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin blamed extremists “without souls, without hearts” for a suicide car bombing that killed 17 people Thursday in the crowded central market of a…

Women, kids among 17 dead in NW Pakistani bombing (AP)

September 7th, 2010

Injured victims of a suicide bombing are treated at a local hospital in Bannu, Pakistan on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. A suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically vital town in northwest Pakistan, killing scores of police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes, police said. (AP Photo/Ijaz Mohammad)AP - A car bomb ripped through a police compound in a northwestern Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing 14 women and children and three officers, the latest in a string…

Women, kids among 12 dead in NW Pakistani bombing (AP)

September 7th, 2010

Injured victims of a suicide bombing are treated at a local hospital in Bannu, Pakistan on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. A suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically vital town in northwest Pakistan, killing scores of police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes, police said. (AP Photo/Ijaz Mohammad)AP - A car bomb ripped through a police compound in a northwestern Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing 11 women and children and one officer, the latest in a string…

Afghan official: 3 die in Kunduz suicide bombing (AP)

July 31st, 2010

FILE - In this July 21, 2010 file photo, a Marine carry team lifts a transfer case containing the remains of Cpl. Paul J. Miller at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Miller, of Traverse City, Mich., died while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. NATO announced Friday, July 30, 2010 that six more U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)AP - A former militia commander who supported the Afghan government and two others were killed Saturday night by a suicide bomber who blew himself up at a football game…

Al-Qaida-linked group claims TV bombing in Baghdad (AP)

July 29th, 2010

A worker clears away blood and debris after a suicide attack on Shiite pilgrims in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq,Tuesday, July 27, 2010.  According to police, a female suicide bomber detonated at a checkpoint near the Imam Hussein shrine where pilgrims are gathered to mark an important religious holiday, known as Shabaniyah, that attracts devout Shiites from around the country. (AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini)AP - An al-Qaida-linked group claimed responsibility Thursday for a bombing earlier this week targeting the Baghdad offices of a pan-Arab television station, describing the deadly attack that killed six…