Bomb blasts in Sri Lanka capital, minister and guard killed
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A Sri Lankan government minister was killed in a powerful roadside bomb attack by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels, followed hours later by a powerful blast in the heart of the capital Colombo, police said.
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At least five people were killed in  a bomb blast in the Pakistani garrison town of Rawalpindi on  Tuesday, adjoining the capital Islamabad, police and witnesses  said.
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Security forces and police stepped up security in the Sri Lankan capital on Tuesday after suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a roadside bomb killing seven civilians, officials said.
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Sri Lankan security forces defused three suspected Tamil Tiger rebel bombs on Sunday, including one in the ancient central hill capital of Kandy.
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At least five people were killed in a bomb blast in the Pakistani garrison town of Rawalpindi on Tuesday, adjoining the capital Islamabad, police and witnesses said.
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A bomb ripped through a packed civilian bus Wednesday, killing 23 people in southeastern Sri Lanka as the government officially withdrew from a tattered cease-fire with Tamil Tiger rebels.
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At least six people are killed in a suspected suicide attack on the main railway station in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo.
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A powerful blast ripped through a bus station at Dambulla in north-central Sri Lanka Saturday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 30, police said.
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Sri Lanka staged mass funerals for bomb blast victims on Tuesday after independence day festivities were marred by a string of attacks blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels.
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A car bomb exploded in central Beirut today, wounding a former Lebanese Cabinet minister in an assassination attempt, top Lebanese and Syrian officials said.
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Two bombs explode in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least 43 people in the deadliest attacks for months.
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A bomb blast near the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, leaves at least five people dead, reports say.
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A Sri Lankan minister was killed by a roadside bomb planted by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels north of the capital on Tuesday, a senior hospital official said, the second MP killed in a week as a protracted civil war escalates.
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A roadside bomb tore through a Sri Lankan bus killing 26 people and wounding dozens on Wednesday, officials said, as a six-year ceasefire between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels formally expires.
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A roadside bomb ripped through a Sri Lankan bus killing 26 people and wounding dozens on Wednesday, officials said, as a six-year ceasefire between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels officially expired.
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Two bombs have exploded in Thailand&#39;s troubled south - killing one person and injuring two-dozen. The blasts come a day before Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra visits the area.
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A suicide car bomb attack targeting Iraq&#39;s environment minister killed four of her bodyguards, while a separate blast near the education minister&#39;s convoy killed one bodyguard, police and government officials said.