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Suicide bombers kill 41 at Pakistani refugee camp (AP)

April 17th, 2010

Pakistani police officers and rescue workers gather at the site of suicide bombing in Kacha Pukka area near Kohat, Pakistan on Saturday, April 17, 2010. Two suicide bombers attacked refugees as they lined up for food at a camp for people fleeing military offensives in northwestern Pakistan, killing scores of people and wounding about dozens, police said. (AP Photo/Naveed Sultan)AP - Two suicide bombers dressed in burqas blew themselves up Saturday in a camp for refugees fleeing military offensives in northwestern Pakistan, killing 41 people and wounding 62, officials…

Afghan police: 5 suicide bombers arrested in Kabul (AP)

April 8th, 2010

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a shura in Kandahar city on April 4. The United States on Tuesday delivered a veiled warning that Karzai's visit to the White House could be canceled, if he repeats his anti-foreigner outbursts.(AFP/POOL/File/Golnar Motevalli)AP - Afghan police arrested five would-be suicide bombers in Kabul on Thursday, the largest suicide team ever apprehended in the capital, officials said.


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Suicide bombers target embassies in Iraq, kill 42 (AP)

April 4th, 2010

An Iraqi soldier stands guard near the site of a suicide attack targeted the Iranian embassy Baghdad April 4, 2010. Three suicide bombers detonated car bombs near foreign missions in central Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 30 people and wounding 168. The blasts near the Iranian, Egyptian and German embassies followed mortar attacks on the Iraqi capital's Green Zone, home to government buildings, official residences and foreign embassies. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: CONFLICT MILITARY CIVIL UNREST)AP - Suicide attackers detonated three car bombs in quick succession near foreign embassies in Baghdad on Sunday, killing more than 40 people in coordinated strikes that Iraqi officials said…

3 Baghdad suicide blasts target embassies; 35 dead (AP)

April 4th, 2010

An Iraqi soldier stands guard near the site of a suicide attack targeted the Iranian embassy Baghdad April 4, 2010. Three suicide bombers detonated car bombs near foreign missions in central Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 30 people and wounding 168. The blasts near the Iranian, Egyptian and German embassies followed mortar attacks on the Iraqi capital's Green Zone, home to government buildings, official residences and foreign embassies. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: CONFLICT MILITARY CIVIL UNREST)AP - Suicide attackers detonated three car bombs near embassies in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 35 people and wounding more than 200 in back-to-back attacks, authorities said.


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Baghdad suicide blasts target embassies; 32 dead (AP)

April 4th, 2010

Women sit in one of the houses attacked by unknown gunmen and mourn the deaths of their relatives in Baghdad April 3, 2010. Gunmen wearing military uniforms stormed a Sunni Muslim village near Baghdad and killed 24 people, some of them former insurgents who turned against al Qaeda, Iraqi authorities said on Saturday. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)AP - Suicide attackers detonated car bombs near three embassies in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 32 people and wounding more than 100, authorities said.


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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…

Chechen militant claims subway suicide bombings (AP)

March 31st, 2010

Mourners hold a picture and a cross during the funeral of  Maxim Mareyev, a 20-year-old university student who was killed in Monday's suicide bombings in Moscow, in the town of Chekhov near Moscow, Wednesday, March 31, 2010. The twin bombings killed 39 and wounded dozens shocking Russia and the Kremlin with the return of terrorism to their everyday lives. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)AP - A Chechen militant claimed responsibility Wednesday for this week’s deadly subway bombings in Moscow, as two new suicide bomb attacks targeting police officers in southern Russia left 12…

New suicide blasts kill 12 in southern Russia (AP)

March 31st, 2010

Flowers seen at the Park Kultury subway station in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 30, 2010. People put flowers in two Moscow subway stations in memory of the 39 passengers killed in a double suicide bombing as Russia observes a national day of mourning. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)AP - Two suicide bombers including one impersonating a police officer killed at least 12 people and injured 18 others in the southern Russian province of Dagestan on Wednesday, officials…

Suicide blasts in southern Russia kill 9 (AP)

March 31st, 2010

AP - Two suicide bombers including one impersonating a police officer killed at least nine people and injured 18 others in the southern Russian province of Dagestan on Wednesday, officials…

Twin suicide bombings kill 38 in Moscow subway (AP)

March 29th, 2010

A woman cries as Interior Ministry officers block her way in front of the exit of Lubyanka metro station in Moscow March 29, 2010. Two blasts ripped through packed Moscow metro stations on Monday during rush hour, killing at least 34 people and wounding 18, Russian officials said. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin  (RUSSIA - Tags: DISASTER CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST TRANSPORT)AP - Terror returned to the heart of Russia, with two deadly suicide bombings on the Moscow subway at rush hour, including an attack at the station beneath the headquarters…