Suicide Bomber Kills Governor in Afghanistan
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Sep. 10 -- A suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body assassinated the popular governor of eastern Paktia province Sunday, just two days after a powerful car bomb killed 16 people, including two U.S. soldiers, in downtown Kabul, the capital.
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A suicide bomber attacked a restaurant in southeastern Afghanistan on Sunday, leaving seven Afghans dead and 20 injured, the provincial governor said.
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KHOST, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant, killing seven people and wounding 20 others on Sunday in southeast Afghanistan, a provincial governor said.
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A suicide blast killed at least eight people near the Somali government seat of Baidoa on Thursday in an attack the administration blamed on Islamists backed by al Qaeda.
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A Taliban suicide bomber blew up a police bus in the heart of the Afghan capital on Sunday, killing more than 20 people in one of the deadliest bombings to hit Afghanistan since the Taliban were ousted in 2001.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a district police headquarters in southern Afghanistan Monday, killing four policemen and four civilians, a government official said.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Sept. 26 -- A Taliban suicide bomber killed 18 people outside a provincial governor's compound Tuesday, including several Muslim pilgrims set to travel to Mecca. It was the latest in a series of attacks directed at senior figures in President Hamid Karzai's U.S.-backed...
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A suicide bomber killed the governor of Afghanistan's southeastern Paktia province today, the Interior Ministry said. The attack follows a dramatic rise in Taliban-led violence in Afghanistan.
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The governor of Paktia Province is the highest-ranking official to be killed since the Taliban began a campaign of suicide bombings last year.
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At least five people are killed in a suicide attack at the funeral of an assassinated Afghan governor, police say.
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The deputy governor of Afghanistan's Helmand province is killed in a bomb attack on a mosque.
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A suicide bomber in police uniform killed a top police official in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday as he toured the site of an explosion that killed 36 people and wounded 169 a day earlier, officials said.
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Gunmen killed Baghdad's governor in  Iraq's highest-profile assassination in eight months and a  suicide bomber killed 11 people at a police checkpoint on  Tuesday in an escalating campaign to wreck the Jan. 30  election.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan on Thursday killing a deputy provincial governor and at least five other people, officials said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - The governor of Afghanistan's most important southern province escaped unscathed from a roadside bomb on Monday, but three civilians were wounded in the attack, his office said in a statement.
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Governor of south-eastern province escapes unhurt but several people are injured in suicide blast.
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BAGRAM AIRBASE, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people on Tuesday in an attack on the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan where Vice President Dick Cheney was visiting after an unannounced visit.