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Suicide bomber kills 22 in attack on Iraqi cafe (Reuters)

October 30th, 2010

Reuters - A suicide bomber blew himself up in an Iraqi cafe usually packed with Shi’ite Kurds in a town northeast of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 22 people…

Suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 17 people (AP)

September 6th, 2010

Map of Pakistan locating the site of the suicide attack on Monday. At least 17 people were killed and 45 wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday, destroying the building, police said.(AFP/Graphic/Afp Graphics)AP - A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically important town in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17…

Iraq: Suicide bomber kills 6 in Baghdad (AP)

July 9th, 2010

A member of the Iraqi anti-terrorism forces stands guard as Shiite Muslim pilgrims walk to Kadhimiyah. A string of attacks against Shiite pilgrims in the past three days killed 70 people in Baghdad, security officials said on Thursday, exposing the continued ability of insurgents to inflict bloodshed.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - A suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden car into an Iraqi army check point in western Baghdad, killing six people and injuring 20 on Friday morning, officials said.


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Motorcycle bomber kills at least 48 in Pakistan (AP)

July 9th, 2010

A elderly man injured by a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan's Mohmand ethnic Pashtun tribal region is assisted after being brought to the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar on July 9, 2010. REUTERS/Fayaz AzizAP - A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck outside a government office Friday in a tribal region where Pakistan’s army has fought the Taliban, killing at least 48 people…

Bombs kill 6 in Baghdad, including policemen (AP)

June 6th, 2010

Iraqi soldiers stand guard outside the Baghdad headquarters of the Iraqi National List, ex-premier Iyad Allawi's bloc. A member of Allawi's political bloc has been gunned down in his home near the main northern city of Mosul, a security official said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - Iraqi security officials say an explosives-packed car driven by a suicide bomber has killed at least six people and wounded 15 outside a western Baghdad police station.


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Deadly day: At least 99 killed in attacks across Iraq (AP)

May 10th, 2010

Iraqis react to an explosion in Hillah Iraq in this image taken from TV Monday May 10, 2010. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a textile factory in Hillah  Monday  in a crowd that gathered after two cars bombings at the same spot in the worst of a series of attacks killing tens of people across Iraq, the deadliest day this year. (AP Photo/APTN)  **  TV OUT  **AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a textile factory Monday in a crowd that gathered after two cars bombings at the same spot in the worst of…

At least 84 killed in attacks across Iraq (AP)

May 10th, 2010

An Iraqi policeman stands guard as followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr crowd a street as they attend open air Friday prayers in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a textile factory Monday in a crowd that gathered after two car bombings at the same spot in the worst of…

3 loud blasts heard in NW Pakistani city (AP)

April 5th, 2010

Map of Pakistan locating Lower Dir. A bomb attack has killed 25 people at a celebration organised by a political party in northwest Pakistan, with fears the death toll could rise further, police said.(AFP/Graphic)AP - Three explosions have rocked the largest city in northwestern Pakistan hours after a suspected suicide bomber attacked a political rally elsewhere in the troubled region.


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Hometown of Russian suicide bomber rattled (AP)

April 3rd, 2010

Relatives cry for a victim of the twin suicide bombings in the metro during a funeral ceremony in Moscow. Russia has identified a 17-year-old widow of an Islamist militant as one of the Moscow suicide bombers, officials said, as the country stayed on alert after attacks in the capital and the Caucasus.(AFP/Artem Korotayev)AP - When a 16-year-old girl married a militant Islamist separatist entangled in a long-running and bloody struggle against Russian government forces, her relatives in this dusty North Caucasus village…