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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…

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…

Car bomb explodes in Mexico where 72 bodies found (AP)

August 27th, 2010

** CORRECTS DATE ** Mortuary worker wearing protective suits and Mexican marines are seen outside a funeral home where the bodies of 72 men and women that were allegedly killed by the Zetas drug gang, are kept in San Fernando, just 100 miles from the the Mexican border with the U.S. near the city of Matamoros,, Mexico, Thursday Aug. 26, 2010. A wounded migrant who escaped the Zetas gang stumbled into a military checkpoint and led marines to the scene were migrants from Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador and Honduras were executed. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - A car exploded early Friday in front of the offices of a major Mexican television station in a northern state where officials are investigating the massacre of 72…

Explosion near Colombia radio injures several (AP)

August 12th, 2010

AP - A car bomb exploded outside a major radio station shook Colombia’s capital on Thursday, injuring at least six people, police said. No deaths were reported.

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Car bomb kills 15 in village north of Baghdad (AP)

July 21st, 2010

Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Baqouba, a one-time insurgent stronghold about 35 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. A car bomb exploded near a restaurant and coffee shop on Monday, killing and injuring several people. (AP Photo/Adam Hadei)AP - A car bomb outside a Shiite mosque in a village north of Baghdad killed 15 people Wednesday, the third deadly attack in the region in as many days,…

Car bomb signals new dimension to Mexican drug war (AP)

July 16th, 2010

The remains of a vehicle are cordoned off in a street in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday July 16, 2010. Mexican investigators ran forensic tests to determine whether drug gangs used a car bomb in an attack on police patrol trucks that killed two officers and wounded nine people on Thursday. A car bomb would mark an unprecedented escalation of Mexico's drug war and confirm long-standing fears that the cartels are turning to explosives in their fight against security forces. (AP Photo)AP - A drug cartel has used a car bomb for the first time in Mexico’s decades-long fight against traffickers, setting a deadly trap against federal police in a city…

3 US troops die in attack on Kandahar police HQ (AP)

July 14th, 2010

Soldiers of A Company from the 1st Battalion of Royal Gurkha Rifles patrol at dawn in Nahr e Saraj village, in Helmand, in June 2010. An attack on members of a British Gurkha battalion in Helmand province has added to the death toll among NATO troops in Afghanistan, with a total of 359 killed so far this year, according to the icasualties.org website.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AP - A car bomb and gunfight outside the headquarters of an elite police force killed three U.S. troops and five Afghan civilians in the southern city of Kandahar, officials…

At least 3 dead in suicide car bomb in Kabul (AP)

May 18th, 2010

Security personnel look at the destruction caused after a suicide bomber detonated his cache of explosives late Sunday near the gate of an Afghan Border Police residence in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, May 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - A suicide car bomber attacked the heavily fortified Afghan capital early Tuesday, killing at least three people and wounding 21, officials said.


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Pakistan under pressure after NY car bomb (AP)

May 11th, 2010

A soldier of Pakistani paramilitary force searches an Afghan man at a post of Pakistan-Afghanistan border of Chaman, Pakistan, Monday, May 10, 2010. Pakistani authorities beefed up security at Afghan borders as Pakistani army fight against Taliban and militants in Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan along the Afghanistan border, official said. (AP Photo/Shah Khalid)AP - U.S. claims that the Pakistani Taliban were behind last week’s failed car bombing in Times Square add pressure on Pakistan’s government to attack the militant sanctuary of North…

Car bomb targets hotel in Kandahar (AP)

April 15th, 2010

File picture shows members of a German army Bundeswehr patrol secure ground during a patrol in the area of Kunduz, April 28, 2009. Four German soldiers were killed in Afghanistan when they came under fire near the northern city of Baghlan, the German Defence Ministry said on April 15, 2010. Picture taken April 28, 2009. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY)AP - Witnesses say a car bomb has targeted a hotel in the heart of the southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar, injuring at least six people.


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