ISLAMABAD—A bomb blast hit a religious school in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 10 students, a Taliban representative said. Video distributed by the Taliban terrorist group to the media showed the blast site, a hall littered with debris, mats, and shoes, with dead bodies and bloodstains on the floor. Sirens can be heard…
Thai Authorities Seeking Suspect in Southern Car Bombing
HAT YAI, Thailand—Police said Wednesday they were trying to identify the suspect in a bombing of police housing that killed one officer and wounded 45 other people in a part of southern Thailand troubled by a Muslim separatist insurgency for almost two decades. Police said the suspect drove a black pickup truck into the compound…
Turkey Vows More Retaliation After 2 Killed in Cross-Border Kurdish Strikes
ISTANBUL/AMMAN—Turkey said a Kurdish militia killed two people in mortar attacks from northern Syria on Monday, in an escalation of cross-border retaliation following Turkish air operations at the weekend and a deadly bomb attack in Istanbul a week ago. Turkey’s armed forces said it was responding, and a senior security official told Reuters that Turkish…
Turkish Police Arrest ‘Terror’ Suspect in Istanbul Bombing That Killed 8
Police in Turkey have arrested a suspect following an explosion in central Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue on Sunday that left eight people dead, the Interior minister has confirmed. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told local media outlets on Monday that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was behind the bombing on the packed street in the Beyoglu district of Turkey’s largest…
Turkish Police Arrest ‘Terror’ Suspect in Istanbul Bombing That Killed 6
Police in Turkey have arrested a suspect following an explosion in central Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue on Sunday that left six people dead, the Interior minister has confirmed. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told local media outlets on Monday that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was behind the bombing on the packed street in the Beyoglu district of Turkey’s largest…
Russia Arrests 8 for Crimean Bridge Bombing
MOSCOW—Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday that it had detained five Russians and three citizens of Ukraine and Armenia in connection with the bombing of a vital bridge to Crimea, an attack it said was masterminded by Ukraine. The FSB said the attack was organized by Ukrainian military intelligence and its director, Kyrylo…
Death Toll From Overnight Bombing in Pakistan Rises to 8
PESHAWAR, Pakistan—Eight people have been killed in a roadside bombing that targeted an anti-Taliban village elder’s vehicle in northwestern Pakistan, police said. Saeed Khan, a senior police official in Swat, said the slain head of a village peace committee, Idrees Khan, was traveling in the area when the roadside bomb hit his vehicle. He said…
Ripudaman Singh Malik, Man Acquitted in Air India Bombing, Killed in BC: Son
Ripudaman Singh Malik, one of two men acquitted in the 1985 Air India terrorist bombing, has been killed in a targeted shooting in Surrey, B.C. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team released a statement Thursday confirming Malik’s death, saying the shooting appears to have been targeted and there was believed to be no further risk to…
Family of 1974 IRA Pub Attack in Birmingham to Sue Police and Alleged Bomber
The family of a woman who was killed in the bombing of a Birmingham pub by the Provisional IRA in 1974 has sued West Midlands Police and a man they claim was one of the bombers. Margaret Smith, whose 18-year-old daughter Maxine Hambleton was killed in the Tavern in the Town pub on Nov. 21,…
American Mother Pleads Guilty to Leading Battalion for ISIS
An American mother from Kansas pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal district court on Tuesday to organizing and leading an all-female military battalion for the ISIS terrorist group in Syria. Allison Fluke-Ekren, a mother of five and former school teacher, admitted to training around 100 women and girls to support ISIS activities. She also plotted…
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